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Monday August 8, 2005

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Week of August 8, 2005

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10:00Military Service and the War in Iraq

Diane talks about military service and the war in Iraq with Iraq veterans, a military spouse and the producer of a recent radio documentary about military families.

Guests

Maj. Paul Hackett, U.S. Marine and Iraq veteran; ran for U.S. House seat from Ohio in a special election

Jeanette Mulligan, wife of Army Sgt. Clinton Mulligan, Fort Bragg, NC

John Biewen, producer of the radio documentary "Married to the Military"

Lt. Col. David Poirier, Retired, former active duty commander of the 720th Military Police Battalion

Bill Carr, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy

11:00Vicki Constantine Croke: "The Lady and the Panda" (Random House)

In 1936, a widowed young socialite took on her late husband's planned expedition to China in search of a live panda. Diane and her guest talk about the panda-monium set off when she returned with a baby panda cradled in her arms.

Guests

Vicki Constantine Croke, "Animal Beat" columnist for the Boston Globe, contributing reporter for NPR's "Living on Earth," and author of "The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos - Past Present, and Future."

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