WFDD honors veterans abroad and at home. After years of working as a professional photojournalist, guest commentator Martin Tucker thought he'd seen it all - until he encountered a special collection of 30-year old photographs.
Martin Tucker is a Vietnam-era vet and a professional photojournalist. He's based in Winston-Salem. The exhibit, A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans, is now showing at the North Carolina Museum of History.
listen (mp3)According to the Carolina Donor Services, nearly 3,000 people in our state need life-saving organ transplants. It’s also estimated that one organ donor can save up to eight people. Guest commentator
Horace Conner knows how true this is.
Conner shares his wife’s story with area community groups to educate people on the importance of being an organ and tissue donor. And today, he and their two sons are donors.
You can learn more about organ and tissue donation from
Carolina Donor Services (1-800-200-2672).
listen (mp3)Guest Commentator Wilda Spalding revisits October 14, 2006 and the final hours she spent with her dying mother. Now - because of this experience - Wilda encourages people to give the one timeless gift that celebrates all women.
Wilda Spalding works for peace as a People’s Ambassador in the United Nations. She lives in the Triad with her husband and their puppy, Chummy..
You can learn more about cancer prevention at The American Cancer Society (1-800-227-2345), The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (1-866-662-6237 or
http://www.bcpinstitute.org) and at
http://www.medicare.gov/health/mammography.asp.