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- Hmong immigrant and Michigan resident Lian Xiong reminisces about growing up on her family's farm in Laos and her childhood experience of war. Xiong recounts her family's escape from Laos, focusing especially the uncertainty of trusting boaters to ferry them across the Mekong River. She also discusses life in a refugee camp in Thailand, where she met her husband. Part 1 of 3.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Victoria O'Hearn talks about her experiences as nurse in France during World War One. She recalls being asked to translate evacuation notices sent to French citizens just prior to the bombing of their village, being stationed in a Paris hospital and having to chastise Marshall Petain for not closing a hospital door, being lost in the dark during a blackout while trying to help a little French girl shop for a gift, and treating an Italian laborer who trusted her with his life savings to send back to his wife. O'Hearns says that the morale and fighting spirit of French civilians in war time was amazing and that she herself found her work rewarding even in the face of long hours and difficult conditions. Ends abruptly.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Hmong immigrant and Michigan resident Lian Xiong reminisces about growing up on her family's farm in Laos and her childhood experience of war. Xiong recounts her family's escape from Laos, focusing especially the uncertainty of trusting boaters to ferry them across the Mekong River. She also discusses life in a refugee camp in Thailand, where she met her husband. Part 1 of 3.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection