Midday

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Minnesota Public Radio Stories

Bronze star winner Joe Galloway on Veterans Day
Award-winning military correspondent Joseph Galloway joins Midday to talk about the men and women who serve in the military, and the lessons we can learn from the wars they have fought. Galloway earned the Bronze Star for valor for rescuing a wounded soldier under heavy fire in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965.11:00 a.m.
Guests
Joseph Galloway: Longtime award-winning military correspondent for UPI, US News and McClatchy Newspapers. Author of "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" and a sequel, "We Are Soldiers Still." He served four tours of duty as a military correspondent in Vietnam from 1965 to 1975, and was awarded the Bronze Star with V, the only such medal of valor awarded to a civilian by the Army in the Vietnam War. He is also co-author of "Triumph Without Victory: The Persian Gulf War."
More from MPR
R.W. Johnson, longtime Anoka County attorney, WWII vet, dies (11/11/2010)
Essayist thanks a special group of veterans (11/11/2010)
Small Minn. town to finally get Civil War memorial (11/11/2010)
Honoring the fallen at Fort Snelling National Cemetery (11/11/2010)
Photos: Fisher House is a haven for vets' families (11/11/2010)
Rifle squad honors vets with 57,000 goodbyes (11/11/2010)
Remembering WWI, through the eyes of veterans (11/10/2010)
Resources
About Joseph Galloway
Joseph Galloway's McClatchy website
Joe Galloway's cover story in Vietnam Magazine Dec 2010
Election officials and lawyers discuss the Gubernatorial vote count--and likely recount
The top elections officials in Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington Counties, and 2008 recount attorneys, met at the Humphrey Institute to analyze the counting of the votes in the 2010 Gubernatorial election. DFL-er Mark Dayton leads by 8755 votes with only one county left to certify its votes.12:00 p.m.
Guests
Joseph Mansky: Eelections Manager, Ramsey County. Longtime elections manager for the Minn. Secretary of State.
Rachel Smith: Elections Manager, Hennepin County
Kevin Corbid: Director, Property Record and Taxpayer Services, Washington County
Frederic "Fritz" Knaack: Attorney, Knaack and Kantrud. 2008 US Senate recount legal team, Senator Norm Coleman.
David Lillehaug: Attorney, Fredrikson and Byron. 2008 US Senate recount legal team, Senator-elect Al Franken. He is on the 2010 recount legal team for Mark Dayton.
Lawrence Jacobs: Moderator. Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.
More from MPR
Length of likely recount depends on GOP's legal plans (11/10/2010)
Dayton, Emmer stake out positions on recount (11/09/2010)
Video: Tom Emmer's press conference (11/09/2010)
Emmer attorney says no thought to waiving recount (11/08/2010)
Getting to the bottom of the Hennepin County vote error (11/05/2010)
Resources
Governor vote tally on Secretary of State website
Univ. of Minnesota Humphrey Institute website