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The Exchange takes a break for a Veterans Day special from the producers of the Peabody Award-winning program "To The the Best of Our Knowledge.” "Boots on the Ground” examines the Iraq War through the stories, commentary and analysis of the men and women fighting there. We’ll hear from John Wroblewski Sr. who traveled to Iraq to see where his son, 2nd Lt. John "JT" Wroblewski, died on April 6, 2004, in Ramadi. We hear soldiers’ reactions to Helen Benedict's book "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq.". We’ll meet Sergeant 1st Class Toby Nunn, who, after two tours of duty in Iraq, works for Soldiers' Angels, a nonprofit that supports veterans and deployed military personnel and their families and Jonathan Pieslak is joined by Marines and soldiers to talk about their favorite combat songs.

As health care premiums continue to skyrocket, Granite State businesses large and small are considering outside-the-box strategies to keep a lid on expenses, from lowering obesity and smoking rates to treating depression and teaching employees how to shop for the most affordable medical care. We’ll talk to a roundtable of benefit managers and analysts on what ideas are being tossed around and which are sticking.

Guests

• David Whelan, health care staff writer for Forbes Magazine
• David Larrivee, principal consultant at Workplace Benefit Solutions in Manchester
• Peter Hayes, longtime health care consultant with Hannaford Supermarket and now owner of the consulting company Health Care Solutions

The US Dollar has been losing value compared to other currencies around the world. On one hand, the dollar’s decline makes it cheaper for other countries to buy American goods and services. But it also makes it more expensive to import many important consumer products, especially when it comes to energy. We’ll look at what’s making the dollar dip, where US currency fits in an increasingly globalized economy, and what it all means for Granite Staters.

Guests

• Matthew Slaughter, Professor of International Economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
• Peter Goodman, national economics correspondent for the New York Times and author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy

After ruling last year that the right to bear arms in the Constitution’s Second Amendment is an individual right, the Supreme Court could now decide in McDonald vs. City of Chicago whether or not that right applies only to the Federal Government, or whether it also applies to the laws of all 50 states. We’ll look at what the Court might say and how a decision might affect the Granite State’s gun laws.

Guests

• Richard Feldman, president of MLS Communication, a former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association and author of Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist
• Jon Lowy, Senior Attorney for the Legal Action Project at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
• Buzz Scherr, Professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord