Interviewer: Can you tell us of the bombing? How you heard the airplanes, the bombs, and what happened?
Hoang Thi Dan: I was sleeping at the time.
Hoang Thi Dan: Then I heard the planes and bombs exploding.
Hoang Thi Dan: I jumped out of bed and ran to the bomb shelter.
Hoang Thi Dan: When I crawled out of the shelter, it was pitch dark and I found out that my house was in rubble.
Hoang Thi Dan: The neighbors and village officials rushed to the scene, but people were not allowed to run around.
Hoang Thi Dan: I was stricken with fear.
Hoang Thi Dan: One of my children was dying.
Hoang Thi Dan: I carried my child to the medical station in the village.
Hoang Thi Dan: They put bandages on him there, but he died shortly after.
Hoang Thi Dan: After my child's death, I was really scared out of my wits.
Hoang Thi Dan: I ran to the village and stayed there for about a week before coming home.
Hoang Thi Dan: In 1967 I was in bed when the airplanes came and fired their rockets and dropped the bombs.
Hoang Thi Dan: We were really very frightened and ran to our bomb shelter.
Hoang Thi Dan: But one of my children had already been injured in the chest at that time and could not get down to the bomb shelter.
Hoang Thi Dan: After we found out that he was missing and called out for him, we did not hear him respond to our call.
Hoang Thi Dan: So I got out of the shelter and found out that my child had been hit.
Hoang Thi Dan: I carried him to the village medical station.
Hoang Thi Dan: But after I put the bandages on him, he died.
Hoang Thi Dan: I then took him home, made a coffin for him and then buried him.
Hoang Thi Dan: After that I was scared out of my wits and did not dare to go home again.