Transcripts

Transcripts and Final Oral Histories from 2007

“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…”
Transcribed by Billy
Final Oral History

“That tells Vietnam right there for the infantry men right there like I’ve never seen. It changed, it changed them forever”
Transcribed by Christian, Simon, and Colton
Final Oral History

“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.”
Transcribed by Danny, Nick, and Brandon
Final Oral History

“Then when he come he just yelled WHO PUT MY CHILDREN IN THE JAIL…”
Transcribed by Dave, Kendell, and Hayley
Final Oral History

“If we don’t work there’s no money and then they’re going to put us in jail"
Transcribed by Derek and Ana
Final Oral History

“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.”
Transcribed by Eugene, John, and Dre
Final Oral History

“Your infantry platoon would walk first so if anybody hit booby traps you’d hit it first”
Transcribed by Josh, Jay, and Reid
Final Oral History

“Uhh… United States’ ship saved us, they rescued us then they made our boat sink"
Transcribed by Kim
Final Oral History

“My father was running towards the boat and I was strapped to his back and my brother-- Well I almost fell in the water…”
Transcribed by Kirubail and Ishrat
Final Oral History

“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”
Transcribed by May
Final Oral History

“We felt that our lives were in jeopardy and we had to flee”
Transcribed by Molly and Andrew
Final Oral History

“During the Communists [s] I lost my parents, my mom and also I lost my grandparents”
Transcribed by Monet and Mikhal
Final Oral History

“He saw a lot of death back in the country and how we escaped here…”
Transcribed by Preceida, Brian, and Zach
Final Oral History

“I was assigned to an intelligence unit that dealt with interrogation of enemy prisoners, as well as exploiting captured enemy documents.”
Transcribed by Richard, Marco, and Torey
Final Oral History

“It got worse as he [dictator] went everyone was in chaos total disorder”
Transcribed by Scotty
Final Oral History

“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…”
Transcribed by Sebastian, DeShawn, and Paul
Final Oral History

“They [refugee camps] , they were crowded, they were dirty, crowded, dry…”
Transcribed by Shawn and Trevor
Final Oral History

“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.”
Transcribed by Stephanie, Ashlee, and Tom
Final Oral History

“But I think at that point they knew that they had to obey or be killed.”
Transcribed by Verna and Brian
Final Oral History

“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.”
Transcribed by Yvette and Dominic
Final Oral History