How do you inspire the next generation? Match them with their elders to gather their stories and then turn those stories into a compelling radio documentary, "Our Journey: Stories of School Desegregation and Community in Champaign-Urbana."

Illinois Public Media seeks Illinois residents who were among the service members, refugees, conscientious objectors, and draft resistors with first-hand experiences of the Vietnam conflict at home or abroad as part of our year-long gathering of oral histories and TV and radio reports during this 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.