The Story

When Navy Lieutenant Jacob Joubert got orders to move to Raleigh, N.C.as an ROTC instructor, he was at a low point in his life. A tough, tattooed kid from a tough Illinois town, he'd been saved by enlisting and then getting married and becoming an officer. Now, years later, he'd gone though a divorce and moved to a place where he knew no one. Then Jake remembered a long-ago passion for painting. He came up with the idea of reminding people of every single soldier who had died in America's wars - over a million people, each represented with a hash mark. Also,
the lead singer of the band Cracker is personally against the war in Iraq. But one of his songs, Yalla Yalla, became a hit with soldiers.

One-third of the detainees currently at Guantanamo Bay are Yemeni, and one of them is Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif. Marc Falkoff is a law professor at Northern Illinois University who represents 17 Yemeni men, including Adnan. He talks about the challenge of getting Adnan to trust him, and his own journey towards trusting his client. Also on the show: Rahim Al Haj and his music of Iraq.

Leili Pritschet's family descends from Iranian royalty. As a young girl, Leili learned to dance. Her training took her abroad, but she returned home to teach classical Iranian dance to the children of foreigners, principally Americans, living in the country. Then came the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Also in this episode, a grandmother tests her granddaughter's lunch box for lead, and listener Linda Powell. 

The stories of a fire lookout.