During a long overseas flight recently, I stumbled upon StoryCorps, a government-funded program to “record and preserve America’s stories.”

Mostly told by working-class, veteran, immigrant, and minority Americans, several of the below three-minute animated stories brought me to tears:

• The icing on the cake
• A family man
• Danny and Annie
• The human voice
• To R.P. Salazar with Love
• The nature of war
• First squad, third platoon
• Albert and Aiden Sikes
• Killing with kindness
• Bonnie and Myra Brown
• Facundo the great
• Senior on the bus

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.