Daniel Moon and Laura Horowitz Moon
Recorded
May 30, 2023
Archived
May 30, 2023
42:20 minutes
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Id:
ddb002635
Description
Daniel S. Moon (96) is interviewed by his daughter, Laura Horowitz Moon (age not given), about his time serving in the army in the Korean War. Dan recounts moments of levity, trauma, and the experience of being an Asian American fighting in a war where many fellow military service members held prejudice toward their Asian enemies.Subject Log / Time Code
Dan (D) talks about joining the Army and being sent to Korea.
D describes an experience in which a mortar round was shot at him and his fellow troops. No men were killed, but the chickens they were saving for dinner were crushed.
D recounts a moment in which he picked up an old fence wire that the people around him thought would trip a mine.
D recalls yelling at a group to get out of a minefield, only to realize that he had just yelled at a top commander.
D speaks about his PTSD and the "moral injury" of killing men.
D begins the story of his first day of combat, March 7, 1951.
D describes how his unit may have been the only group to call the enemy the CCF (The Chinese Communist Forces) and not the derogatory term commonly used at the time.
D speaks about shooting into a trench and how it felt to kill men.
D describes the explosion that killed many military members in the spot he had just been standing. He details the feelings of experiencing this and tells of his friends who died.
D recalls a battle on June 26, 1951, in which he witnessed an ant war and threw a grenade with his non-dominate hand
D speaks about being shot during this same battle.
D describes his sign that says "Just Fox Company" which commemorates his buddies that died in the war.
Participants
- Daniel Moon
- Laura Horowitz Moon