Ayesha Roscoe

That's a good question.

What do the families that you talk to, what do they want from the government?

Do they want... Obviously, they want their loved ones found, but do they want even just an acknowledgement?

What do you think, what do you want the public to learn from this book?

Because you've now, you know, set this record and borne witness to the lives of these men and put it in black and white so we can all see, you know, the honor that they served with and lost their lives.

Like, what do you want the public to take from this?

Cheryl, thank you so much.

That was NPR investigative correspondent Cheryl W. Thompson.

You can find more of her work at NPR.org.

Her new book is Forgotten Souls, The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen.

This episode of The Sunday Story was produced by Rennie Svernosky and edited by Justine Yan.

The engineer was Jimmy Keeley.

Special thanks to Ryan Bank and Ed McNulty, who produced and edited the original interview.

The Sunday Story team includes Andrew Mambo, Jenny Schmidt, and our senior supervising producer, Liana Simstrom.

Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi.

I'm Ayesha Roscoe.

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