
Ghosts of Arlington Podcast
If you've ever walked the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, you've heard the voices of the past. Even if you haven't, you can still hear them in podcast form. A history podcast about Arlington National Cemetery and the stories of those buried there, with new episodes available first thing every Monday morning.
Episodes
152 episodes
Podcast Update
Just a quick update on where I'm at with the move that has forced the podcast into its current hiatus. The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and recorded by the eldest Ghosts of Arlington, Jr. While ...
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#147: The Mayaguez Incident: The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part VII
This week we finally see the end of the Mayaguez Incident play out but not before a chaotic evacuation causes Marines to be abandoned on the battlefield. An incident that still causes embarrassment today.The introduction and transition ...
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Episode 147
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49:24

#146: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties of Vietnam, Part VI
The crew of the SS Mayaguez is released by the Khmer Rouge, but it was too late to stop the US rescue attempt. Now President Ford wants to full out the troops, but since information flowed a lot slower in 1975 than i...
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Episode 146
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28:00

Podcast Announcement
Surgery on Christmas Eve is never fun - unexpected emergency surgery on Christmas Eve is even worse. Listen for more. Happy New Year, everyone!The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and recorded by the el...
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4:08

#145: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part V
As things get worse on the beaches, we'll look at what was going on with the crew, the ship itself, and the folks back in Washington, DC trying to run the show from there. If you said Ford was probably trying to run the ordeal in the midst of a...
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Episode 145
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28:56

#144: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam
Bad intelligence plus bad timing equals a bad plan. Last week we saw the bad intelligence when no photos of the objective were available so the Marine making the plan flew over the site at 4500 feet with his personal 35mm camera. This week we s...
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Episode 144
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25:58

#143: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part III
US reconnaissance planes lost track of the Mayaguez crew when the trawler they were on arrived at the port of Kompong Som on mainland Cambodia. Because of that, US planners continued to plan for a rescue under the assumption that the crew was s...
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Episode 143
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24:51

#142: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part II
As the first day of the Mayaguez Incident was coming to a close, US officials were gathering Marines from The Philippines and Okinawa for a potential rescue attempt. The Seventh Air Force commander, on the ground in Thailand, tried to include h...
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Episode 142
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31:15

#141: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part I
The last US combat units left South Vietnam on March 29, 1973. The last US embassy personnel were dramatically evacuated on April 30, 1975, the same day that the People's Army of Vietnam entered the city, signaling the defeat of South Vietnam a...
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Episode 141
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31:25

#140: Honored Returns
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is the federal agency responsible for recovering the remains of previously missing in action service members and identifying them and each year DPAA strikes hundreds of names from the rolls of the mi...
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Episode 140
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37:57

#139: The King of Swing, Part II
Glenn Miller was only in charge of the Army Air Forces band for a little over a year and a half, but in that time he changed the way people thought about military bands, challenged the way traditional marches were performed, and above all else,...
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Episode 139
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45:11

#138: The King of Swing, Part I
After several months talking about the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, this week we return full time to Arlington. For the next two podcasts I will be talking about someone I have wanted to cover for some time. That desire ...
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Episode 138
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43:57

#137: Sons of Hawaii, Part III
After representing Hawaii as an officer in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Daniel Inouye went on to serve Hawaii in the US Senate for nearly 50 years, becoming the second-longest serving Senator in that chambers history. During that time, his...
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Episode 137
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21:30

#136: Sons of Hawaii, Part II
Danny Inouye wanted to be a doctor when he grew up - specifically, he wanted to be a surgeon. When he was a senior in high school he was a Red Cross volunteer. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor he saw the planes flying over Honolulu and r...
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Episode 136
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22:52

#135: Sons of Hawaii, Part I
A native of Kauai who put his live on the line to serve his country as a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion, and who then dedicated the remainder of his life serving Hawaii, first as a state legislator, then a US representative, and finally...
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Episode 135
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32:33

#134: Tales from Punchbowl, Part VII
This week we get the first Nisei General Officer in both the Army National Guard and the Army Reserves and a humble Medal of Honor recipient who didn't tell his family about the medal (or his battlefield promotion and two subsequent promotions)...
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Episode 134
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20:49

#133: Tales from Punchbowl, Part VII
Today's episode covers the lives of eight men named Nakada. The first seven were all brothers who served in the Army in World War II - the most of any family in the United States. The final Nakada, Captain Pershing Nakada, was the senior Nisei ...
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Episode 133
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26:59

#132: Tales from Punchbowl, Part VI
After losing a leg, two fingers, and the site in one eye, Ken Otagaki tries to return to his life before the war, hopes that his girlfriend will still be there for him, and tries to figure out how to support himself despite his severe injuries....
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Episode 132
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31:56

#131: Tales from Punchbowl, Part V
Ken Otagaki grew up poor on a sugar cane plantation on Hawaii's Big Island, but after seeing how oppressed his father was by the overseers, he vowed that he would make his own way in the world and, despite cultural and familial expectations, he...
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Episode 131
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25:15

#130: Tales from Punchbowl, Part IV
We recently lost another pioneer of the space race so the episode begins with a eulogy for astronaut Bill Anders, who took one of the most famous photographs in history, and ends with the life of Isaac Akinawa, arguably the most respected medic...
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Episode 130
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34:33

#129: Tales from Punchbowl, Part III
Young Oak Park was likely the first (maybe the second) Korean American officer in the US Army and was assigned to the 100th Infantry Battalion in World War II, mainly because the army didn't know where else to put a non-Japanese Asian officer. ...
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30:05

#128: Nisei Linguists, Part II
Much of what the Nisei linguists did during World War II remained classified for decades after the war. Eventually, their stories came out and as more people learned of their great efforts to defeat the Axis powers, monuments and memorials spri...
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Episode 128
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29:49

#127: Nisei Linguists, Part I
Recognizing the importance of trained and competent linguists, during World War II, the US Army's Military Intelligence Service trained foreign language speakers to help with the war effort. Many were Japanese speakers and most of those were Ni...
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Episode 127
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