Listen to the conversation from Connections with Evan Dawson for two shows featuring on veterans for Veterans Day 2021. First hour: Transitioning back to civilian life and second hour remembering 1983 Beirut Bombing. Listen On-Demand to the Archive Below
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Listen to the Archive: First hour when members of the military leave active duty, they may face challenges re-entering civilian life. We talk about Operation Green Light, a program geared at easing that transition. Our guests:
- Jason Skinner, U.S. Army veteran, and director of Livingston County Veterans Services
- Mike Eastman, Brigadier General (ret), and executive director of the ETS Sponsorship Program
Listen to the Archive: Then in our second hour, a 1983 bombing in Beirut took the lives of more than 240 U.S. service members, including local Marines. We sit down with a one of the survivors. Our guests:
- Mike Zawacki, Beirut Marine veteran
- Hicham Bou-Nassif, associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College