Colorado War Stories
Colorado's veterans and families share memories, photos and video to tell the story of the war from a local perspective.

 

Many Coloradans have served on an aircraft carrier. Rocky Mountain PBS interviewed Navy veterans and servicemen and women in and around Denver, the Western Slope and in the Pueblo-Colorado Springs area.
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Rocky Mountain PBS welcomed the community for a free screening at The Wings Over the Rockies Museum in Denver. The setting was stunning with an F-14 Tomcat beside the giant screen and stage.
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Pro-war? Anti-war? Somewhere in between? When it comes to "Carrier," viewers' opinions – just like sailors' – cover the spectrum.

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He was slumped in the front row of the Greyhound, looking out the window as I settled beside him in the only empty seat. The wind was cutting, yet he wore only a hoodie and jeans. He barely answered my hello. But eventually, the sun drained from the sky, the groan of the engine drowned out the chatter, and he decided to talk.

He was Blake, home from Iraq, riding from San Diego to his mom's in Wyoming.
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"Carrier" is a character-driven, edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction drama and a once-in-a-lifetime total immersion in the high-stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier.
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Colorado veterans and family members discuss service in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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Samuel C. Cravens joined the Army Air Corps in 1940 and flew dozens of combat missions over the South Pacific during WWII. His wife, Betty P. Cravens, wrote in with his story.
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Colorado native, Robert M. Hardaway III, a surgeon with the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was responsible for treating some of the first casualties of World War II. He was stationed in Hawaii with his wife, Lee Harkey, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Rosemary Casey Winter, an Army nurse in training during World War II, read these entries and wrote in to express her thanks for 'the excellent, truthful, realistic portrayal of WWII.' She recounts her loved ones' experiences during World War II in her letter.
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This Rocky Mountain PBS production focuses on the lives of Latinos, African Americans and women who served during World War II on the battlefield and the homefront.
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