On this episode of Our American Stories, in a 30-year span, a family has to deal with its sins twice and tell a story of roll-reversal and forgiveness. Mary Sparks's tale is another entry in our "Women of True Grit" series, brought to us by Edie Hand. Scott Jones, the author of Growing Up Rural, tells a story from his book about a very chilling experience that happened to him in his youth...and the lesson he learned from it. Since his junior year of high school, Rishi Sharma made it his mission to honor and preserve the memory of the men who saved the world.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - How Faith, Infidelity, and Forgiveness Grew a Family Not Once, but Twice

23:00 - Dangling Feet and Learning Responsibility

35:00 - Pearl Harbor Veteran Shares His Survival Story