Category: Witness

“He went somewhere; you could see it. And there was no pain. There's a quiet dignity in there.”

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Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final moments in an air ambulance.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

“We were really pioneers. We were the Jackie Robinson of the Air Force.”

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Roscoe Brown, Jr., telling his friend Javier Henriquez about being a Tuskegee Airman.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“I'm sure for the rest of his life he's had nightmares and he's had a tortured, tortured soul.”

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Michael Crowe tells his son about his sergeant during the Vietnam War.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“You know, when everybody's poor, nobody feels poor.”

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Manny Diaz tells his friend Blanca Vazquez about growing up in New York City, during the Depression.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias

“I think my family saw them one time on the street, and they wouldn't even talk to them.”

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Yvonne Powell tells her son, Gordon, about the Jewish family that lived downstairs from her in Germany, during World War II.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“By the time I was in the second grade, everyone was calling me Raymond.”

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Ramón "Chunky" Sanchez remembers how teachers changed the names of Mexican-American students during the 1950s.

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Recorded in San Diego, CA. Click here for more from Historias

“I thought he was the goofiest guy I had ever met...”

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Granvilette Kestenbaum remembers her husband, Howard, who died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“His sister idolized him.”

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John and Elaine Leinung remember their son, Paul J. Battaglia, who was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“Both of the boys would call me when they were working.”

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Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in Baldwin, NY.

“How do you think you've changed?”

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Keith Meerholz and his wife, Grete, talk about his escape from the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

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