{"id":344,"date":"2021-05-29T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homecoming.audio\/?page_id=344"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:07:08","slug":"about-the-cd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/driviera.com\/homecoming\/about-the-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"About the CD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Operation Homecoming is an audio CD featuring the literature of war, read in the voices of ten of America\u2019s most esteemed writers, most of whom served in war themselves. Narrated by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, the CD presents fiction, poetry, letters, and memoirs from the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The Operation Homecoming CD will be given free to troops to help them explore and realize their own literary potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special audio program, presented by the National Endowment for the Arts, featuring: Will D. 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