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| Description: | Lloyd Wright, CEO and President of WFYI opens the 2 part season premier for Across Indiana. |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
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| Description: | It is an unusual observation about The War that, in spite of the fact that regimes toppled, mountains moved, and oceans trembled, it still remains very much a personal story—told in the millions of individual tales of dedication, perseverance and trial that make up the landscape of war. Not all of these stories have happy endings. So it is with our next stop in Elkhart. It’s about a good man with a very big heart—who gave the last full measure
of devotion to his country—and who never forgot the girl he left back home, waiting for his return. And it’s about the diary he kept for her to read—using the leather of his wallet for paper and the scratching of a safety pin for his eloquent pen. |
| Credits: | Todd Gould |
| Location: | Elkhart |
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| Description: | There are many legendary tales concerning the U.S.S. Indianapolis. Of how it delivered parts for the first atomic bomb. Of how it was sunk by Japanese torpedo fire. Of how its crew desperately battled sharks to survive four days drifting at sea. Of how some sailors hallucinated and took off their life jackets to swim to the safety of an island just 100 yards away . . . only to drown when there was no island at all. Of how a young pilot, himself a Hoosier native, first spotted them in the water, landed, and piled weakened sailor after weakened sailor onto the wings of his plane until help arrived. But perhaps the best reason to keep telling this story of the sacrifices made by a brave crew to every audience that will hear it was given to our “Across Indiana” team by Eugene S. Morgan, a survivor who had made his way to Indianapolis to attend the rededication of a memorial to the ship on our capital city’s downtown canal: “I had a high school student come up to me and ask: ‘World War II. What was it? Did we win it?’” |
| Credits: | Titus Rush and Jim Simmons |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
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| Description: | “Double V.” During World War II, that was the battle cry of the Army Air Corps first all-black division, the Tuskegee Airmen. One “v” for victory overseas; the second, for a victory for equal rights at home. For one hundred and one of these trailblazing servicemen, their greatest battle came not over European soil, but right here in the heart of our state—in the war for civil rights. We travel to back in time to a Seymour of the past to look at the Tuskegee Airmen and their fight against racism to win the right to fight for their country. |
| Credits: | Todd Gould |
| Location: | Seymour |
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| Description: | In Columbus, we look at the aftermath of war—the new beginnings that peace brings and the new lives that are raised up from the ashes. Sometimes, you can find these stories in the most unusual places; sometimes, they begin by listing among your friends and neighbors the very people you once called “enemy.” |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons |
| Location: | Columbus |
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| Description: | Micheal Atwood closing remarks and thanks the 'Greatest Generation'. |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
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