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The Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center's MAMF Media presents video and audio podcasts and shares the stories, memories, news and culture of the men, women and children who serve alongside America's service members.
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Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner gives an impromptu tour of the "Schooling Exhibit" at the museum.
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Albuquerque Native Bobby Unser spoke with MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner on July 7, 2013.
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
As more people around the world are self-isolated at home, Museum Director Circe Olson Woessner reads her essay on "Home" which can be read on the American Military Family blog: https://americanmilitaryfamily.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/home-2/
Join us each Wednesday night for another "Brat Time Story"
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
BRAT TIME STORIES are a selection of essays, poems and stories read by MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner, and other authors. Most of the stories come off of the museum blogs or out of the archives. These stories will be posted on Wednesdays sometime after midnight. Join us in the middle of the night!
The background music came from a collection of lullabies on YouTube. Check the video out here. https://youtu.be/HnhjRCEnIFo
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Veteran COL Robert Cortez is the State of New Mexico Ambassador to the Army Reserve. Iain and Circe Woessner interviewed him on July 7, 2013. He discusses what the Ambassador role is and his military service.
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
A quick tour of the Museum's Military Family Memorial located on the grounds of the New Mexico Military Museum in Santa Fe, NM. The memorial was created with the help of a lot of people and organizations from around the country.
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Iain Woessner interviews military veteran Tom Meier, a member of the Disabled American Veterans, who attended the July 2013 DAV Convention in Albuquerque.
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Steve Bassett talks about service and his book, the Golden Ghetto, in a 2013 interview.
Here's a description of the book and a link to Steve's website.
GOLDEN GHETTO: HOW THE AMERICANS AND FRENCH FELL IN AND OUT OF LOVE DURING THE COLD WAR (Red Hen Press published September 1, 2013)
“Golden Ghetto” is a Cold War tale from France of birth, growth and death of a huge U.S. Air Force base as relived through the heretofore dormant memories and voices of both the occupier and the occupied.
Tens of thousands of American GIs passed through Dèols-Châteauroux Air Station during the sixteen years that it was the largest U.S. Air Force supply base in Europe. Hundreds of hours of interviews and long forgotten photos provide for the first time a unique blend of voices seldom if ever heard.
French citizens describe what it was like to have foreign troops roaming the streets of their city. The Americans recount what it was like to be viewed with initial distrust and suspicion, if not outright hatred, fueled by a local communist anti-American propaganda machine under the direct control of the Kremlin.
When the end came and the base was padlocked, it was our reluctant friend and ally Charles de Gaulle who administered the coup de grâce and NATO vanished from France. Although “Golden Ghetto” is uniquely a French and American story, this saga is also a microcosm of what was experienced by the 120 million American men and women who served in the military during the Cold War, 27 million of them overseas. Considering the suspicions, jealousies, bigotry, and crass opportunism inherent whenever one foreign power occupies another, “Golden Ghetto” pieces together an improbable love story.
To learn more, check out Steve's website at: https://stevebassettworld.com
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Larry Hurtado, a Vietnam veteran, is the founder of the Sandoval County Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the town of Bernalillo, NM. MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner interviewed him in July 2013.
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Military Brat Registry founder Marc Curtis has had an interesting career in broadcasting, and now now has formed two companies overseas. Enjoy the first of many travelogues and interviews from Marc in China.
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner joined Brat and Veteran author Steve Sparks on PTSD Chat, an online radio show in 2007