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This Sunday at 5pm, We've Never Been The Same: A War Story is the story of one night of battle and the decades of recovery that followed. Produced by Adam Piore and Jay Allison.

7/29/2012: Walter Stockwell, the Grand Secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of North Dakota claimed an unusual recognition this date in 1945.

8/1/2012: Major Samuel Woods reached Pembina on this date in 1849, traveling through the newly-formed Minnesota Territory to establish a military presence on the Red River of the North. Also known as the Pope Expedition, after the group’s surveyor John Pope, Woods was also tasked with meeting with local tribes to learn whether “their lands in the Red River Valley may be purchased and opened for white settlement.” These secondary orders came from the Secretary of the Interior, Thomas Ewing.

8/5/2012: During the 1940s, convenience foods had become increasingly popular. Frozen and canned foods became plentiful, and researchers also looked to dehydration as a way to preserve food and minimize storage and transportation costs.

8/6/2012: Travis Hafner made his Major League Baseball debut on this date in 2002, playing for the Texas Rangers. One of only fifteen North Dakota natives to play in the Major Leagues, the designated hitter has garnered the most home runs for a player born in the state.

8/8/2012: The 1967 World Tournament of Horseshoe Pitching concluded on this date in Fargo. Considered one of the most exciting tournaments in the history of the sport, the games were attended by 26,000 spectators. Will Gullickson, a sports writer for the Fargo Forum, helped to organize and promote the ten-day event. For his efforts, he was awarded the Arch Stokes Memorial trophy, an annual award honoring the person who is believed to contribute the most to the sport of horseshoe pitching.

8/11/2012: Did you know that much of North Dakota was once a Spanish possession? F

8/12/2012: We often hear stories of the arduous journey and the struggle to obtain a homestead, but that wasn’t always the case.

8/14/2012: The Northern Pacific Missouri River Bridge at Bismarck has stood for almost one hundred and thirty years. It has beaten back all that the mighty river has thrown against it, withstanding floods, ice jams and eroded embankments. The bridge was designed and the building of it overseen by George Morrison. But for one man, Frank Ingalls, the ongoing safety of the structure became a lifetime battle.

8/15/2012: When we think on the last few days of World War II most people will think of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And looking back with the benefit of hindsight it seems quite natural that Japan would fall in 1945; the country was out-manned, out-gunned, and out-produced.