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Davisville, Aug. 6, 2018: Decades later, WW II infantry vet Francis Resta describes the nightmare of combat

About 16 million Americans served in World War II. Today, 73 years after that war ended, perhaps 3 percent of those veterans are alive. Among the survivors, an even smaller number lived through infantry combat during the war—and today’s guest is one of them. Francis Resta, who lives in Davis and was born in 1925, was a mortar-man and machine gunner in the 102nd Infantry Division, and fought in Europe. Today we talk about his experiences, living through “insane” and “endless” combat, post-traumatic stress disorder, why many combat vets shun the idea they’re heroes, and why he wants to talk about it all now.

*This episode was awarded First Place in "Radio/Audio – Non-Commercial: Public Affairs Program" at the San Francisco Press Club 2019 Awards Dinner.

 

The Golden Road for 7:00pm on Aug 3rd, 2018

August 1st 2018 would have been Jerry Garcia’s 76th birthday. Yep 76! So, this week on the Golden Road we have our annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Extravaganza broadcast with a little twist that this year’s show is all Jerry Garcia Band music! No Grateful Dead this week you say? Fear not next week’s Golden Road is all Grateful Dead music! Anyhoo we have some epic Jerry Garcia Band music planned for this week’s show!

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