web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:27:14 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Carleena Show - Episodes Tagged with “Vietnam Veteran” https://carleena.fireside.fm/tags/vietnam%20veteran Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:30:00 -0400 The Carleena Show features in-depth conversations with guests from around the world. en-us episodic In-depth conversations with guests from around the world. Carleena Angwin The Carleena Show features in-depth conversations with guests from around the world. yes carleena angwin, interview, journalism, narrative journalism, tennessee, chattanooga, mental health, personal diary, nonfiction, working class, heros journey Carleena Angwin carleena44@gmail.com At Ease, Soldier: A Vietnam Veteran uses Death with Dignity: Juanita Ramsey-Jevne https://carleena.fireside.fm/31 c22b358d-0da7-4aa9-aa8e-2457c5bc4282 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:30:00 -0400 Carleena Angwin full Carleena Angwin When Juanita Ramsey met her future husband in 1986, the Vietnam War was to her long over. She soon learned that to marry a soldier was to marry his war. Bill Jevne served as a Marine Corps platoon commander in Vietnam. The memories were burned in his mind. The poison of Agent Orange had colonized his cells. When his prostate cancer became terminal, he used the Death with Dignity option. "Our first date began with a story of these young men getting killed. And our last hours ended with him, still a platoon commander, calling his remaining members and telling them: 'I'm going to be dying in about an hour, and I want to say goodbye to you.'" Juanita Ramsey-Jevne now gives workshops on end-of-life options, embracing death to enhance life, grieving, and writing. 1:14:37 yes When Juanita Ramsey met her future husband in 1986, the Vietnam War was to her long over. She soon learned that to marry a soldier was to marry his war. Bill Jevne served as a Marine Corps platoon commander in Vietnam. The memories were burned in his mind. The poison of Agent Orange had colonized his cells. When his prostate cancer became terminal, he used the Death with Dignity option. "Our first date began with a story of these young men getting killed. And our last hours ended with him, still a platoon commander, calling his remaining members and telling them: 'I'm going to be dying in about an hour, and I want to say goodbye to you.'" Juanita Ramsey-Jevne now gives workshops on end-of-life options, embracing death to enhance life, grieving, and writing. Special Guest: Juanita Ramsey-Jevne. Raising Arizona, Vietnam War, Vietnam Veteran, Marines, Marine Corps, Death with Dignity, prostate cancer, The Carleena Show, Carleena Angwin, Hospice, Juanita Ramsey-Jevne When Juanita Ramsey met her future husband in 1986, the Vietnam War was to her long over. She soon learned that to marry a soldier was to marry his war. Bill Jevne served as a Marine Corps platoon commander in Vietnam. The memories were burned in his mind. The poison of Agent Orange had colonized his cells.

When his prostate cancer became terminal, he used the Death with Dignity option. "Our first date began with a story of these young men getting killed. And our last hours ended with him, still a platoon commander, calling his remaining members and telling them: 'I'm going to be dying in about an hour, and I want to say goodbye to you.'"

Juanita Ramsey-Jevne now gives workshops on end-of-life options, embracing death to enhance life, grieving, and writing.

Special Guest: Juanita Ramsey-Jevne.

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When his prostate cancer became terminal, he used the Death with Dignity option. "Our first date began with a story of these young men getting killed. And our last hours ended with him, still a platoon commander, calling his remaining members and telling them: 'I'm going to be dying in about an hour, and I want to say goodbye to you.'"

Juanita Ramsey-Jevne now gives workshops on end-of-life options, embracing death to enhance life, grieving, and writing.

Special Guest: Juanita Ramsey-Jevne.

]]> Shannon Gilmore: TBI Does Not Define This Writer https://carleena.fireside.fm/8 e4d2653b-bec4-48dd-9848-4dc89e53a1d5 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:30:00 -0400 Carleena Angwin full Carleena Angwin When Shannon Gilmore was 15 years old, a tangle of arteries burst inside her skull and she was put in a medically induced coma for 3.5 weeks. Ten years after her brain bleed, she completed an MFA in Nonfiction and a thesis manuscript that is the beginning of her memoir. In our conversation today, we talk about the journey of who Shannon was before her brain trauma, who she was in the initial recovery, and who she is now. "I think everybody has a story that matters, but you have to figure out how and why it matters. My professor in college made me feel that my story mattered and needed to be told in its truth." - Shannon Gilmore The Carleena Show Podcast | https://carleena.net/podcast/ | Ordinary People Share Their Hero’s Journey | Hosted and Produced by Carleena Angwin | Video Editing and Graphic Design by http://stevenllorca.com/ 1:30:00 yes When Shannon Gilmore was 15 years old, a tangle of arteries burst inside her skull and she was put in a medically induced coma for 3.5 weeks. Ten years after her brain bleed, she completed an MFA in Nonfiction and a thesis manuscript that is the beginning of her memoir. In our conversation today, we talk about the journey of who Shannon was before her brain trauma, who she was in the initial recovery, and who she is now. "I think everybody has a story that matters, but you have to figure out how and why it matters. My professor in college made me feel that my story mattered and needed to be told in its truth." - Shannon Gilmore The Carleena Show Podcast | https://carleena.net/podcast/ | Ordinary People Share Their Hero’s Journey | Hosted and Produced by Carleena Angwin | Video Editing and Graphic Design by http://stevenllorca.com/ Special Guest: Shannon Gilmore. Shannon Gilmore, Carleena Angwin, The Carleena Show, Joseph Campbell, Hero's Journey, Goucher College, Baltimore, Towson, Maryland, Horse Lessons, Traumatic Brain Injury, arteriovenous malformation, Mount St. Mary's, MFA Nonfiction, Memoir, Writing, Memory Loss, Short Term Memory Loss, TBI, London, Vietnam Veteran, 173rd airborne, Army When Shannon Gilmore was 15 years old, a tangle of arteries burst inside her skull and she was put in a medically induced coma for 3.5 weeks. Ten years after her brain bleed, she completed an MFA in Nonfiction and a thesis manuscript that is the beginning of her memoir. In our conversation today, we talk about the journey of who Shannon was before her brain trauma, who she was in the initial recovery, and who she is now.

"I think everybody has a story that matters, but you have to figure out how and why it matters. My professor in college made me feel that my story mattered and needed to be told in its truth." - Shannon Gilmore

The Carleena Show Podcast | https://carleena.net/podcast/ | Ordinary People Share Their Hero’s Journey | Hosted and Produced by Carleena Angwin | Video Editing and Graphic Design by http://stevenllorca.com/

Special Guest: Shannon Gilmore.

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"I think everybody has a story that matters, but you have to figure out how and why it matters. My professor in college made me feel that my story mattered and needed to be told in its truth." - Shannon Gilmore

The Carleena Show Podcast | https://carleena.net/podcast/ | Ordinary People Share Their Hero’s Journey | Hosted and Produced by Carleena Angwin | Video Editing and Graphic Design by http://stevenllorca.com/

Special Guest: Shannon Gilmore.

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