Grandma Jan: Her backstory and advice

In this Isabella Miya (16) interviewed with Jan Hildebrand (75) her grandma about her life growing up in the 50s and 60s. As a young adult, Jan experienced a lot of racial tension because of her friends she associated with....

Combat Veteran interviews Military Widow

Mrs.Joy was kind enough to share her life experiences with me and I am forever grateful. She is a military widow who owns her own daycare. Being a combat veteran myself, I had countless questions because of the many intersections...

Colonel Terry Derouchey’s Military Career

In this interview, Colonel Terry DeRouchey discusses his time at West Point and some of the highlights of his military career. He served in the United States Military for 35 years.

“I was known as Chester’s dark-skinned boy”

On March 4, 91 year old Dusty Rhodes, combat veteran, and NAACP member spoke about his life experiences from the balcony he loves to relax on at the Legacy at Cimarron Retirement Center. Here, he discusses his experience being his...

Austin Keen

I interviewed infantry veteran and Operations Officer, Austin Keen at a local jiu jitsu gym in Kingwood Texas. We discussed his transition from the military back into civilian life and how his time in the military led to his current...

Thanksgiving Interview

This is a interview with my grandfather Gary Jenkins. We talk about a few of his accomplishments in life.

Interview with Dad

We learn good wisdom. And a little about basic training.

A Woman's Right: The Story It Tells – April of Mission, Texas

"I believe everyone should have their choice." - April Vallejo shares her experience as a young mother who believes every woman should have the right to choose. April attended the local Women's March in Brownsville, Texas with her daughter on...

Michael Susi. My time in Vietnam.

The interview was great! I learned a lot about the different ranks in the military and why Michael wanted to serve just like his family did. I also learned what a typical day was like at their base and what...

PTSD and Me: How Poetry saved me from Suicide

Erika Land and Aissatou Sidime-Blanton discuss that PTSD the Erika suffered as part of her U.S. military service as a pharmacy technician and how poetry, and producing her one-woman play (“PTSD and Me/At ease. Not today PTSD.”), has helped her...

A Muslim in America

After talking with Irene Ameena I learned more about her religion, childhood, and what it’s like being a Muslim in America.

Interview with Oma

My Grandma(Oma) answers some questions from how she joined the military, to even working for the state department.(The cover photo is from us when she too me to London, I called he for the interview)

“His entire unit got wiped out.”

He was born in Egypt, but he became a U.S. citizen and served in the military here. As a licensed counselor and director of the Veterans Center at Lee College in Baytown, Texas, Ehab Mustafa has made a difference in...

Black in America

As black men like George Floyd, continue to be killed in America, I ask my husband what it feels like to be black in America.

My grandpas life

My grandpa, Hondo Goodrich, has lived a very happy life and has always known to live life to the fullest. He looks at every opportunity as a great one and strives to make each moment a good one.

A Woman's Right: The Story It Tells – Annette of Mission, Texas

"We have to continue to fight to have these rights. That was when I was 15 or 16 when I realized that." - Annette of Mission, Texas talks about her experience with equal rights in the computer science industry. Annette...

“I Don’t Worry About Little Things”

In this interview, conducted in November 2018 in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Cecilia Munoz (16) interviews her past teacher history teacher, Ralph Bernard (65) about the events that shaped him into the influential person he is today. Mr. Bernard...