Community Voices

In this episode of Veterans' Voices, we hear from Emily Maples. Her father served in the Iraq War, and when he came home, the man Maples knew was no longer the same.

We spend a few minutes with Will Davis, the new director for the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.

Jeanette Ezell reflects on her experience as a military spouse—her pride, the challenges, and dedication to the life she built with her husband in service to the country.

In this episode of WYSO's Think Twice podcast, University of Dayton professor Bill Trollinger says the Christian Nationalist hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, terrorized Black, Catholic, and Jewish people in the 1920s.

Starting in 2006, Central Ohio native Richard Horton served more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

Carol Robinson from Centerville, Ohio, volunteers with Blue Star Families, combining her love for supporting families with her gratitude for those who serve our country.

Tara Rosnell, chair of the Ohio Innocence Project Board of Advocates, says, "Our mission is to free innocent people." In this episode, host Mary Evans interviews Rosnell.

For this season, ReEntry Stories creator Mary Evans partnered with the Ohio Innocence Project to explore critical stories of injustice in the criminal justice system.

Rachel McMillian at the University of Illinois partners with the Ohio Innocence Project to invite exonerees to her class to educate students about wrongful incarceration

Some Gulf War veterans came home with an unexplained chronic illness termed Gulf War Syndrome, and veterans with the illness face more than just physical health problems.

Robert McLendon spent two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He says The Ohio Innocence Project and 'The Columbus Dispatch' paved the way for his release.

Geri Maples is executive director of the Southwest Ohio chapter of Blue Star Families, a nonprofit supporting military families. She was interviewed for this season of Veterans' Voices.