Wyoming Public Radio Memorial Day Weekend Programs

Friday 3:00pm - Sunday 12:00pm: Monumental Disagreementsfrom Backstory with the American History Guys.

This is a country awash in monuments. They adorn traffic circles, street corners and, of course, the National Mall. In this special Memorial Day episode of BackStory, the American History Guys explore the idea of national remembrance. What or whom have Americans chosen to memorialize? And what do these choices say about us?

Saturday 8:00pm - Monday 9:00am: B.B.’s Blues: A B.B. King Appreciation

Music host Paul Ingles guides you on a musical tour of both famous and more obscure King masterworks that span his nearly 70 year performing career. B.B. King died in his sleep, Thursday, May 14, 2015 at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 89.

Monday - 2:00pm: We’ve Never Been the Same: A War Story

All wars are the same, it is said; only the scenery changes. And the repercussions are pretty much the same too.
Over the course of five years, Adam Piore gathered the stories of the surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit; Jay Allison joined him for the last two years when it turned from a book into a radio story.Piore gathered the stories of the surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit; Jay Allison joined him for the last two years when it turned from a book into a radio story.

At Fort Campbell before deployment, Delta was a ragtag bunch, the “leftovers” as one of their fellow soldiers put it, but on the night of March 18th, 1968, they became heroes. Their leader won the Congressional Medal of Honor and two others won the nation’s second highest honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, for their valor that night when the company endured a long and devastating battle—not as long or as devastating, however, as the years that followed, after the men of Delta Company came home separately to live alone with the memories.