NY Police officer Dan Maher with a new class of Iraqi soldiers. (Dan Maher)
New York, NY –
Dan Maher spent a year as a drill sergeant there, teaching new Iraqi soldiers how to search for weapons and defend themselves against insurgents. He also used a micro-cassette recorder to tape his daily life in Iraq. Now Maher has returned to New York, where he's back on the city's streets in an NYPD uniform. WNYC's Marianne McCune spoke with Maher and used his recordings of life in Iraq AND in New York to give you a sense of his experience coming back from the war.
Marianne McCune is a staff reporter for New York Public Radio (WNYC 93.9FM/AM820) and contributes regularly to National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She thinks of the New York Metropolitan Area as the center of the world because that's how she covers it: more than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne reports on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth.
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