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Joseph Gringlas - January 22, 1993

They didn't want to hear too much, is that. Did you want totell them the story?

Yes and no. I-it felt that somebody wants to hear you, what happened,went through. It's, it, I wanted-yeah I was, at the beginning, you know, notuh, going through all of it, but just telling how we eh, to go, how we wentthrough was the worst. But I don't, I think it, it didn't go through. It d...it's,they thought that this couldn't by possible to be like that. Im...impossible.

What kind of reactions did you get-if you'd started to tellthem a story-what, what-how did they react to you? Not just the family, butanybody in the United States when you first arrived here?

Well mostly was the, telling the story you didn't tell the peoplewhat-were, we told, usually people like want to know from other, like thefami...or other people wanted to know, you told them the story. They were,some were very good listen. And they were sorry what happened but, what canyou do?

So you did talk about it.

Yes. And at the beginning, when I came, but not. Just because,eh. Not because, I-when they ask you what, they were, some people were eagerto hear, listen. But went on, how did you survive because it's, nobody couldfeel that you could survive something like that.

Did it make you feel better to talk about it?

It was-yes and no, you know. It's-I don't know, terrible, itwas feeling that, after awhile telling that's, what ki...what happened toyou, what-how you would have want to telling the stories about yourself. Itwasn't bad. In a way feeling, it's coming out a little of yourself, tellingthat but-a mixed feeling.

Mixed feeling. So you stopped talking about it.

Yeah, stopping. After awhile we stopped talking and I went, Iwent to work.

Did you talk to your brother about it?

Oh always.

Did you exchange-you exchanged...

Yeah, Mm-hm. Yeah, I was, this, with this, with my brother, Imean we came to family and the family, we talked about it.