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How a Team of Green Berets Fought an Ambush in Afghanistan

NO WAY OUT

A team of elite soldiers were sent into a mountainous area to capture an insurgent leader and were ambushed. Staff Sgt. John Wayne Walding talks about the attack, and how he and his team kept fighting while pinned to a rock ledge for six hours.

GUN STORIES:

DEATH IN A NATIONAL PARK

Our series of conversations about guns continues with U.S. Park Ranger Margaret Anderson, who was killed on duty at Mount Rainier National Park. Phoebe Judge talks with her pastor and friend Jayne Thompson, who had spoken to Margaret about carrying a firearm in the line of duty.

Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.
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