This American Life: How I Got Into College

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/504/how-i-got-into-college?act=2

The section of last week's This American Life above talks about stories, how we feel about telling stories and what happens when we find out that the stories we tell about ourselves aren't exactly true.

"These stories we tell about ourselves, they're almost like our infrastructure.... so maybe the point is that... you should be conscious of how you tell your story."

The Veterans History Project is so fascinating because oral history isn't about documenting the facts - it's about documenting emotions and how people perceive their lives and narrate their stories.  Would highly recommend listening to the above to understand more about the narrative construction process and what happens when that narrative that guides how we perceive our past is broken.