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Colleagues Katherine Burgess (31) and Michael "Mike" Finch (35) talk about their upbringing and how they became interested in journalism.

One Small Step conversation partners Veronica (36) and Jenni (42) have a conversation about their backgrounds growing up and living in different places, their experiences living abroad in Italy, and their views on having diverse communities and perspectives in their...

Nina Wagner (47) interviews her father, Neal Seidler (77), about his childhood growing up on a dairy farm.

Sisters Prathna Sok (32) and Sokhita Sok (28) talk about moving to the United States from Cambodia and their path to becoming vendors at the Queens Night Market. They reflect on their favorite memories of food and their family.

Friends Michael Kerr (77) and John Maltas [no age given] discuss their service during the Vietnam War. Mike talks about being a door gunner in Vietnam and his becoming a Quaker afterward.

Friends John McGrath (83) and Cynthia Aki [no age given] recall John being a prisoner of war in Hanoi, Vietnam, for six years and Cynthia’s service in the military.

Kan Hoa Chung discusses his journey during the Cambodian genocide led by Pol Pot and their extremist regime. He discusses the challenges he and his family faced to survive and come out alive. This is his story and his memories...

Dasundy Ou had a difficult life growing up. When she was extremely young, her country was taken over my communists that destroyed her land. Here, she shares the story of her life and what she has to say to the...

His name is fred Allen and he served in many different places including Cambodia and Vietnam

Beatrice Peterson recalls her experiences traveling with the American military during the midst of the Cold War to locations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Germany, and Romania while being interviewed by her granddaughter, Maddy Shearer on May 14th, 2022. She details how...

Amanda So (29) interviews her father, Suor So (69), about his life, focusing on his immigrating to the United States in 1981 from Cambodia and his subsequent life here.

Mia speaks to her father, David and they discuss his childhood

Sarim and her family are Cambodia refugees who came to the US in 1975. She talks with her daughter-in-law, Angela about the barriers she faces with her doctors because her English is not great. How not fully understanding the language...

A story about a Cambodian man, and his long journey to the United States.

One Small Step conversation partners Melissa Chanselle-Hary (40) and Katharine Schweitzer (35) talk about what the words “liberal” and “conservative” mean to them, why they don’t identify with those words, and how those words relate to the idea of believing...

Syma Mohammed [no age given] interviews Savong Lam (44) on her personal experiences being a Cambodian immigrant in America.

Tracy Anderson (47) interviews her father Guy Laboa (81) about his role as one of the first group of American military advisors sent to Vietnam in late 1964.

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Sichan Siv [no age given], talks about The American Dream with his friend, David Waddle (67). He reflects on his escape from the Khmer Rouge and shares how he was able to...

Maggie Suon (84) survived the horrific Cambodian genocide. Abandoned by her husband, lost 3 children, and now lives in Dallas with 2 children, 4 granddaughters, and 2 great granddaughters.

Thear Suzuki (47) interviews her mother, Esther Ky (81), about surviving the Cambodian genocide, living in a refugee camp, and transitioning to life in the United States when a family decided to sponsor her and her family.

We talked about her life as a refugee after the Vietnam War and how she had to travel place by place to survive. She started off in Vietnam, where her poor family had to let her go. She then left...

My moms life

Richard Weaver (75) and daughter, Samantha Weaver (46), elaborates on his experience with the Navy, fatherhood, and his love of poetry. He reflects on his childhood, being in Southeast Asia, and how life was as a physician in the Navy.

Sam talks about his childhood unable to settle anywhere. He also talks about his family and their past.

In this interview we talked about John French’s experiences in the Vietnam War.