Oral+History+Reflection

 Oral History Reflection~ Before I sent Mr. Jacobsen my Oral History questions, I thought about how I would probably understand his responses because we had just been studying the Vietnam war the previous week. But to tell you the truth, no one can understand war unless you have been in it; even if you have studied it for years and years. I didn't really know what people did on flying missions and what they did as a navigator, so I was both excited to learn, and nervous. I was probably more nervous because would if he was too conservative and didn't want to answer my questions because he didn't want to talk about his experience in the war. But Mr. Jacobson responded very quickly, with full response. My dad told me that he was a little hesatent to talk about his experiences in the war, because it might have been hard to understand for a kid my age. My reaction was: Ha!! what kid? Im 14!!! Just kidding, I had no idea what an A-6 attack squadron is, or what insurgents were. But getting the responses from him was very exciting, because I could tell that the Vietnam war was a huge impact on Mr. Jacobsen. There was one thing, though, that perplexed me and that was how Mr. Jacobsen said that people would give him weird looks if people found out he was in Vietnam. I did know that a lot of people opposed the war, so maybe they thought that he was crazy for choosing to fight in the war. Thankfully though, people finnaly realize the importance of serving for our nation, no matter what you belive.