Svendsen, Kent - short clip - HowGuantanamoChangedMe

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-	It opened me up to...opened me up more to the world.	0:00
	I'm from a rural area, you know, and	0:08
	the military in itself is, I've had the privilege	0:12
	of traveling to about 18 different countries	0:15
	and doing all sorts of different, different things.	0:17
	And it introduced me to an element	0:21
	that I'd never been exposed to before.	0:24
	It gave me a hunger and interest to learn more.	0:26
-	About?	0:29
-	About people.	0:30
	I mean, obviously the big question is, you know	0:31
	as an American citizen, living in a democracy	0:35
	in which we have more freedoms and rights	0:38
	than anybody else in the world, why would people hate us?	0:41
	Why would they want to kill us?	0:44
	Why would they want to take planes and fly them	0:46
	into our buildings and kill men, women, and children?	0:48
	Why would they want to put on vests and blow themselves up?	0:50
	You know, I'd like to know that,	0:53
	I'd like to know what motivates people to want to do that	0:55
	and think you're doing something good in the process.	0:58
	I mean, that's a big question, isn't it?	1:02
	It's a question that, you know	1:04
	maybe if we learn the answers to, we can find ways	1:06
	in this world to prevent those things from happening	1:08
	by getting to know other people	1:11
	and to know what motivates them.	1:13
-	Do you have any thoughts after having served in Guantanamo	1:16
	as to what might be?	1:19
-	Simply the issue that, you know,	1:25
	get to know your neighbors,	1:28
	get to know people, you specifically go out your way	1:30
	to learn about who the individuals are and	1:33
	to learn the good qualities they have	1:37
	rather than just seeing somebody different	1:38
	and then being afraid of them, or being paranoid	1:40
	about them being there, you know,	1:44
	becoming friends across their differences	1:46
	and to celebrate our differences rather than using them	1:48
	as a way to divide us into categorize us and set us apart.	1:51

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Title:

Svendsen, Kent - short clip - HowGuantanamoChangedMe

Date:

October 30, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Svendsen, Kent

Role:

Chaplain

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Christian Chaplain
Kent Svendsen, male, age 58, served as chaplain for the military police battalion in Guantanamo from May 2004 to March 2005, working inside Camp Delta for the commanding officer and the troops.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:29:31

Digital Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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