On this episode of Our American Stories Major General James Mukoyama rose from his blue-collar Chicago neighborhood to become the first Asian-American to command a US Army division General Mook is the author of Faith Family amp Flag Memoirs of an Unlikely American Samurai Crusader a book printed under retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink's publishing company Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

Zhang was raised with in his words ldquo no God no religion nothing rdquo In seeking democracy and freedom for his people he helped lead students in peaceful protests But the protests tragically led to the government rsquo s intervention and hundreds of lives lost For his part in the event Zhang was placed on his country rsquo s most-wanted list After a short imprisonment he fled to an outlying village where he met an elderly farmer who introduced him to Christianity She had only a handwritten copy of the gospel of John but couldn rsquo t read so she [... more]

Lee Cowan examines Hollywood's canceled summer blockbuster season and how film production may be forever changed Tony Dokoupil plays table tennis with Star Trek Picard star Sir Patrick Stewart Peter Greenberg looks at how the travel industry is inching back Mark Strassmann reports on this week's first crewed SpaceX launch from the Kennedy Space Center And Wired magazine's Nicholas Thompson explores how Wikipedia became a trusted source for medical information on COVID- See Privacy Policy at https art com privacy and California Privacy Notice at https art com privacy do-not-sell-my-info [... more]