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Today, Ellen asked an audience member, Tara Storch, to share her powerful story about turning the loss of her daughter into a source of inspiration.

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- -: A Powerful and Inspiring Story

March 9, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

Today, Ellen asked an audience member, Tara Storch, to share her powerful story about turning the loss of her daughter into a source of inspiration.

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- -: Petra Nemcova Opens Up on Her Tragedy

March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

In 2004, Petra Nemcova was gravely injured and her partner was killed in the South Asian tsunami. Today she recalled the event in the wake of recent events, and shared how she healed.

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- -: Blackwater and the Nisour Square Shootings - Steve Fainaru

December 9, 2008 (over 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/20/Steve_Fainaru_In_the_Company_of_Americas_Mercenaries Steve Fainaru, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, discusses a highly publicized September 16, 2007 incident at Baghdad's Nisour Square, in which 17 Iraqi civilian...

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- -: Mumbai Attacks: "These Weren't Just Terrorists"

December 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/08/Making_Sense_of_the_Mumbai_Attacks Counterterrorism expert Bruce Hoffman describes the November, 2008 attacks on downtown Mumbai, India as "more like a military operation than a terrorist attack," and examines what implications the incident may have f...

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- -: Remembering a Fallen Soldier in Afghanistan - Craig Mullaney

March 19, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/09/The_Unforgiving_Minute_A_Soldiers_Education West Point graduate and US Army veteran Craig Mullaney discusses when his platoon was ambushed in Afghanistan and the emotional consequences of losing a soldier during combat. "When you're doing causality ev...

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- -: Jim Lehrer on Covering the JFK Assassination

April 9, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/05/NewsHour_with_Legendary_Journalist_Jim_Lehrer Jim Lehrer, author and news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, discusses his experience as a young reporter covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including an exchange with the Sec...

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- -: Wally Lamb on Meeting Columbine Gunman's Father

April 20, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/04/Wally_Lamb_The_Hour_I_First_Believed While signing copies of The Hour I First Believed, his novel about the Columbine High School massacre, author Wally Lamb was approached by the father of gunman Eric Harris. Lamb remembers the details of the emotion...

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- -: The Bee and the Almond: Crop Pollination May Kill Colonies - Michael Pollan

May 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Michael_Pollan_Deep_Agriculture In Defense of Food author Michael Pollan says the high demand of pollinating central California's almond crop may be contributing to the collapse of bee colonies. Pollan says bees are shipped in from around the globe an...

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- -: Christopher Hitchens Recalls Mass Graves In Iraq

July 17, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/09/Axis_of_Evil_Christopher_Hitchens Journalist Christopher Hitchens remembers a vivid experience while visiting uncovered mass graves in Iraq. "If you want to feel dirtied up by the experience of fascism, try finding that you're 12 hours away from a sho...

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- -: Of Cannibalism and Other Horrors of War - Emmanuel Jai

January 14, 2010 (over 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/24/Emmanuel_Jal_A_Boy_Soldiers_Story Emmanuel Jal, musician and author of War Child: A Child Soldier's Story, recounts the "lowest point" in his life when starvation nearly turned him to cannibalism. ----- Emmanuel Jal was born in a tiny village in Sou...

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