Recorded by Billy
“When you have a friend get blown away who is sitting right next to you and you’re kinda picking the body parts off of you, you know the trauma of that is something you don’t forget…”
Recorded by Christian, Simon, and Colton
“That tells Vietnam right there for the infantry men right there like I’ve never seen. It changed, it changed them forever”
Recorded by Danny, Nick, and Brandon
“Khmer Rouge soldiers came to the capital city of Pun Ping [and] people were just told to evacuate, you know, and you know the soldiers have gun in their arms.”
Recorded by Dave, Kendell, and Hayley
“Then when he come he just yelled WHO PUT MY CHILDREN IN THE JAIL…”
Recorded by Derek and Ana
“If we don’t work there’s no money and then they’re going to put us in jail"
Recorded Eugene, John, and Dre
“1 year of the time my father was enslaved, and the other 3 he kind of lived in hiding...he kind of just hide in the jungle until he made an escape to Thailand.”
Recorded by Josh, Jay, and Reid
“Your infantry platoon would walk first so if anybody hit booby traps you’d hit it first”
Recorded by Kim
“Uhh… United States’ ship saved us, they rescued us then they made our boat sink"
Recorded by Kirubail and Ishrat
“My father was running towards the boat and I was strapped to his back and my brother-- Well I almost fell in the water…”
Recorded by May
“They’re droppin rockets in on you there’s explosions all around you…or [I] got shot out of the sky three times…in helicopters and you don't know if your gonna survive the crash”
Recorded by Molly and Andrew
“We felt that our lives were in jeopardy and we had to flee”
Recorded by Monet and Mikhal
“During the Communists [s] I lost my parents, my mom and also I lost my grandparents”
Recorded by Preceida, Brian, and Zach
“He saw a lot of death back in the country and how we escaped here…”
Recorded by Richard, Marco, and Torey
“I was assigned to an intelligence unit that dealt with interrogation of enemy prisoners, as well as exploiting captured enemy documents.”
Recorded by Scotty
“It got worse as he [dictator] went everyone was in chaos total disorder”
Recorded by Sebastian, DeShawn, and Paul
“We got rocketed, you know artillery fire came in, mortar fire came in a couple of times. And ya know not that far away from us…”
Recorded by Shawn and Trevor
“They [refugee camps] , they were crowded, they were dirty, crowded, dry…”
Recorded by Stephanie, Ashlee, and Tom
“This crazy little warrant officer must have about; 5’3’’ throws grenades down holes and then climbs down after them. I thought, “Ah, this guy’s NUTS.”
Recorded by Verna and Brian
“But I think at that point they knew that they had to obey or be killed.”
Recorded by Yvette and Dominic
“Went to Thailand and that's how we got to the refugee camps…soldiers that saw us doing this, you know, they would just shoot at us…A lot of people would get shot down in the Mekong River.”
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