On this episode of Our American Stories Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the th century Our regular contributor Richard Muniz tells the story of an unforgettable accident at Ft Irwin California Wendy Steele tells us how she could have never imagined that an idea for her community of Cincinnati would have snowballed into chapters across the world and over million donated Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate nbsp Time Codes nbsp - Trapped Inside [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories teacher organist choir director and World War II history buff Anne Clare tells the story of how World War II impacted a small Navy town on the West Coast Wendy Steele shares how she could have never imagined that an idea for her community of Cincinnati would have snowballed into chapters across the world and over million donated Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate nbsp Time Codes - America Builds Up The Bremerton Naval Yards - Women Creating Transformation In Their Own BackyardSee omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]