This week we're talking about the Vietnam War, one of the most unpopular wars in US history. Tomorrow is Memorial Day and while I very much want to honor and remember the over 58,000 Americans who lost their lives fighting for their country in Vietnam, around one third of them drafted, that’s not exactly the focus of this episode. Instead, I want to explore a side to the war we don’t often think about. I want to explore what happens if you’re drafted, but you know you can’t do it. You can’t go fight in a war, kill people, lots of people, for a cause you don’t believe in, a war you are morally opposed to. Because for many, that was the reality. So what are you going to do? What options do you have? Join me and special guest Bruce Wasser, author of "90: A Conscientious Objector's Journey of Quiet Resistance" to uncover Bruce's experience as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

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Watch a video of the December 1, 1969 birthdate draft lottery here

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Sources:

• BBC "The Vietnam War"
• History.com "How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 US Presidents"
• Selective Service System "Vietnam Lotteries"
• PHData "Analyzing the 1969 Vietnam War Draft Lottery"

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This week I’m very excited to share with you some recent developments in the story of the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke. I’m joined by Scott Dawson, who runs the Lost Colony Museum in the town of Buxton, on Hatteras Island. For a long time, Scott has been working with British archaeologist Dr. Mark Horton to excavate sites of old Native American villages in Buxton, left by a group known as the Croatoan. What they have discovered recently may just be the first real “smoking gun” evidence to prove what really happened to the colonists. And, no spoilers, but it’s pretty much exactly what we should have already realized happened.

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Earlier Roanoke Colony Episodes - Episode 27 (part 1) and episode 28 (part 2)

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Sources:

• "The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand" by Michael Leroy Oberg
• Island Free Press "‘Smoking gun’ evidence of Lost Colony’s relocation to Hatteras Island makes international news"

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This episode is all about the history of feeding babies which has been necessary and yet surprisingly difficult since the beginning of mankind. In fact, it's so necessary that to forgo it, up until very recently, the last hundred years or so, was a death sentence for the infant. We don’t often think about feeding babies. It’s something mothers take care of behind the scenes, part of the invisible load. We certainly don’t pause to think about the history of it, the immense challenges faced throughout the ages. But we should. As necessary as infant feeding is, as necessary as it has always been, society still does not make it easy for mothers to pull off. And that should concern you, even if you aren’t a mother, even if you aren’t a baby. Because you were once, and so was I, and so was literally everyone. Let’s fix that.

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Sources:

• The Journal of Perinatal Education "A History of Infant Feeding" by Stevens, Patrick, and Pickler
• CDC "Trends in Breastfeeding Among American Mothers"
• US Department of Labor "FLSA Protections to Pump at Work"
• Mamava "The History of Breastfeeding"
• GinPolMed Project "A history of breastfeeding"
• Time Magazine "Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate"
• NC Health News "Distant echoes of slavery affect breastfeeding attitudes of Black women"

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