The Story

Ahmed has gotten used to hearing about friends and colleagues who have been killed. But he is still shaken by the news.

When former US Army medic Col. Patrick McKenzie was sent to Afghanistan, he arrived with great skepticism about the Afghan people he'd be working with. He was assigned an Afghan translator, a young doctor named Dr. Sayed Alam. As the two men tell Dick Gordon, distrust eventually turned into humor, and then friendship.

After more than a decade on the run, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has finally been caught. He's now at The Hague and will likely face war crimes charges for his alleged role in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s. Kemal Pervanic was one of thousands of Muslims rounded up and sent to concentration camps during the genocide under Karadzic's rule. Also in this episode, Peter Pohlhammer wrote in to tell us about his encounters with the great American baritone, William Warfield.  He tells Dick about the profound influence Warfield had on him, both musically and morally.

Matthew Cosgrove served in the first Armored Division in Iraq. This is a story about how a song, In White Light, bridged the miles between mother and son.