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Local veterans on their service and Americans' perceptions of those who served

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Mari Tsuchiya
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WXXI News
Andraé Evans and Lou Wayne on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Monday, November 11, 2024
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On Veterans Day, we sit down with a man who went 50 years before he could talk about his service.

Lou Wayne went to Vietnam, despite his misgivings about that war. For years, he thought he would go his entire life without talking about it. But something changed in the past twelve months.

Wayne joins us, along with combat veteran and Irondequoit Town Supervisor Andraé Evans, to talk about service and what it means to respect American veterans.

In studio:

  • Lou Wayne, local Vietnam veteran
  • Andraé Evans, U.S. Army combat veteran and Irondequoit Town Supervisor
Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.
Megan Mack is the executive producer of "Connections with Evan Dawson" and live/televised engagement programming.
Julie Williams is an associate producer for "Connections with Evan Dawson" and is also the office administrator for radio, news and technology and operations. She started at WXXI in 2019 and has been working on Connections since 2022.