Sarah Fox’s research on the nuclear west involved ten years of extensive research involving citizen narratives. The wide range of interviews that she had to conduct directly relates to my fieldwork memory project. The people in my group are studying personal narratives. I find that interviewing someone involves implementing myself in their story by researching what I don’t know. Sarah relates to many of our personal feelings about interviews. It took her a lot of courage to speak to Native Americans about the medical experiences they had during the 1950’s because of nuclear testing, as well as the implications they had with uprooting themselves because of it. I had my own qualms about interviewing my own family, let alone having to interview complete strangers like many of my classmates are. Sarah had to weave the narratives of the citizens she interviewed into her own story and that takes dedication and time. As I have continued to learn through my time at Evergreen, we all have such valuable stories to tell because they are so important to who we are individually. Sarah didn’t speak about how she got interested in nuclear testing but it’s obvious to see that she is fascinated by nuclear testings affect in the world. Like I feel about many projects I’ve started, she has an infinite amount of information she could access in the future. I plan to get her book because her information is valuable, especially to our generation. To solve the elimination of nuclear waste we need to study its beginning and its affects on our environment and people on a global scale.