Collateral Damage 움직이는 것은 무엇이든 쏴라

Suntae J. Chun and Song J. Park

[and the first time I saw time bombs] one of the largest explosions I ever heard, right in the middle of the city, like an atomic bomb you saw in the picture.  I thought, what the hell was it?!  Five minutes later, one of the bombs again exploded; then, every five minutes for hours. [Ah, we said, oh that’s a time bomb…]

Suntae J. Chun

[I guess the peasant was working in the rice field] All Korean peasants wear white, so, they’re not supposed to bomb people who dressed in white.  They were just working in the field and all of a sudden, a plane was just bombing.   I was so scared.  The plane came very low.  They could even see the peasants but they did it anyway. [So, my father finally came back and…]

Song Park

[low flying planes can see civilians, you know] Ladies who have laundry on their heads and they just keep running slowly.  They know it’s civilians, but they just come down shooting machine guns and then killed them.  [I saw a lot of them like that…]

Suntae J. Chun

[but  we had questions…] Why are they bombing the innocent people? [well, maybe I was too young…]

Song Park

[shoot down all those bad guys…] There’s a stupid rumor. They said white people don’t kill us like that.  They give us chocolate.  Then I saw the real pilot closer to me.  I was just so surprised.  They’re nice looking guys.  White guys.  How come they bomb, us?  Then another surprising thing is that a minister or father came out and blessed them before they lift off or after they landed.  I was wondering, what the hell is going on?  God is not like that.

Suntae J. Chun