¡Colores!; 1008; Mayhem was Our Business: Memorias de un Veterano; Sabine Ulibarri Mayhem Read 2

- Transcript
And the tape machines and the books and I put in an order and they sent them to me and I listened and I was nailing back and no cost to me at all. And it's not just because I'm a parent. It's a service provided to all people that are visually impaired and I don't think people know that. Not widely. I never heard that. It's a mandate. You know, because you work at the bookstore. Was it that life had already been sold? Was it that life had already been sold? And now it was a case of collecting. And now it was a case of collecting? Very nice, but it caught a breath on the microphone, so we'll need to do it again. Was it that life had already been sold?
And now it was a time of collecting? Okay. I keep catching a breath on the microphone. Let me adjust. Okay. Was it that life had already been sold and now it was a case of collecting? Do it again. Was it that life had already been sold? And now it was a case of collecting. Very good. Here's one of my other favorites. They called us a wild elephant spreading death and destruction across the continent. I don't remember what the others did. I don't remember what the others did.
I knelt down and kissed the ground. I knelt down and kissed the ground. I fell on my bed face up. I didn't feel cold or heat. I didn't feel cold or heat. Let's try that again. I didn't feel cold or heat. I wasn't hungry or thirsty or sleepy. I wasn't hungry or thirsty or sleepy. I didn't hear or see anything. I felt no pain. I felt no pain. When horror, fright, and terror reach a point, when horror, terror, and fright reach such a point, when the body and the mind can no longer handle them.
When the body and the mind can no longer handle it, unconsciousness sets in. Unconsciousness sets in. I see myself in the distance of memory. I see myself in the distance of memory. As if I were someone else. As if I were someone else. If I were watching from another world, as if I were watching from another world, almost then there was a time of living and dying. There was a time of living and dying, a time of song and tears, a time of song and tears, a time of war. It was a time of war.
It was a piece of history. It was a piece of history. One more time please. It was a piece of history. Already in the orbit in the space of memory. Already in orbit in the space of memory. It only exists in remembrance and in the written word. It only exists in remembrance and the written word. She smiled and said something like smashing, isn't it? She smiled and said something like smashing, isn't it? Let's do a war time. She smiled and said something like smashing, isn't it? That's a great one.
Thank you. That was true. That's a great story. When once you're as a shattering experienced like ours. When one shares an experience like ours, an instantaneous affinity, an instantaneous friendship is born. A spontaneous friendship is born. A spontaneous friendship is born. Let's try to put that all together. When one shares a shattering experience like ours, an instantaneous affinity, a spontaneous friendship is born. Too much? When one shares a shattering experience like ours, an instantaneous affinity, a spontaneous friendship is born. Prove it out. Okay?
No. I remember absurdly a scene from the movie A Farewell to Arms. I remember absurdly a scene from the movie A Farewell to Arms. Okay. I need to get remembered. I'm sorry. I remember absurdly a scene from the movie A Farewell to Arms. I remember absurdly a scene from the movie A Farewell to Arms. I remember absurdly a scene from the movie A Farewell to Arms. I remember absurdly a scene from the movie A Farewell to Arms. Okay. Here's the end of that chapter. I would like to thank her now for the kindness. I would like to thank her now for the kindness. The friendship. The friendship. The generosity. The generosity. She gave to a lonely melancholy young man. She gave to a melancholy, no.
She gave to a lonely melancholy young man. And love in time of war. And should be a young man in love. Yeah, okay. Melancholy young man in love in time of war. And melancholy young man in love in time of war. As bombs fell and fear rained. As bombs fell and fear rained. I wish Loretta that you could read these pages. I wish Loretta that you could read these pages. Okay, let's try that one more time. But wait a minute. I'm not sure about something. Okay. Okay, here we go. Melancholy young man in love in time of war. As bombs fell and fear rained. Melancholy young man in time of war. As bombs fell.
Let's try it again. Yeah, I didn't get it. Maybe if we go back even further. I've got the beginning, okay. She gave to a lonely melancholy young man in love in time of war. As bombs fell and fear rained. Melancholy young man in love in time of war. As bombs fell and fear rained. As bombs fell and fear rained. As bombs fell and fear rained. Okay, now I'm back to Loretta. I wish Loretta that you could read these pages. I wish Loretta that you could read these pages. Maybe take a little bit more time with it. Because you have a comma after I wish. I wish Loretta that you could read these pages. Bravo.
You know. Okay. I flew 35 combat missions in 47 days. I flew 35 combat missions in 47 days. Good job, back. Okay. It's just the one way. Okay. I can hear it. Yeah. It's just like... All of a sudden it was over. All of a sudden it was over. It gave me a 30-day leave. It gave me a 30-day leave. I'm waiting for the card to go back. At home I was considered a hero. At home I was considered a hero.
That was true of staying alive as heroic. That was true if staying alive was heroic. Okay. Let's put those last sentence together. At home I was considered a hero. That was true of staying alive as heroic. At home I was considered a hero. That was true if staying alive is heroic. A recurrent nightmare was a whirlpool of blood. A recurrent nightmare was a whirlpool of blood. Something like a tornado. Something like a tornado. It's stared. I'm sorry. It's stared. Is that right? Steered in the distance and threatened. I must have... You don't have the complete quote on here.
You want me to read it? No, it's okay. So it started in the distance moving even closer. It started in the distance moving even closer and threatened to suck me in. It started in the distance moving ever closer threatening to engulf me. Okay, we had a cargo by one more time. It started in the distance moving closer and threatened to suck me in. That started in the distance moving even closer and threatening to suck me in. One more time. It started in the distance moving ever closer and threatening to engulf me. Okay, 45 years have gone by.
45 years have gone by. And that's just a single sentence. I'm going to use that out of context. So maybe when you get to the end and make it a little bit more of a 45 years have gone by. But how does it start? About 45 years have gone by. 45 years have gone by. Great, thank you. Okay, last one. War is not something you hang in the closet and forget about. War is not something. You hang in the closet and forget about it. War is something you carry with you under your skin. War is something you carry with you under your skin. Each day I would look at myself in the mirror.
Each day I would look at myself in the mirror. Okay, I'm still getting noise from you leaning in a little bit. Each day, each day I would look at myself in the mirror. The Second World War, given all the sorrow that came with it. I hold it deep. I hold a reverent and deep love for the mountains. I hold a reverent and deep love for the mountains. Okay, that's good. Well, I'm going to try one more. I'm sorry. I didn't think we got the whirlpool of blood. I got the right cadence to it. A recurrent nightmare was a whirlpool of blood.
A recurrent nightmare was a whirlpool of blood. Something like a tornado. Something like a tornado. Starting in the distance, move closer and threaten to suck me here. That started in the distance and move closer, threatening to engulf me. Much better. Thank you. In small pieces. Give good pauses if you try. No, it's down my give it to him. Okay, there was hardly a mother. There was hardly a mother. Who didn't have a son already dead? Who didn't have a son already dead?
Or hanging dangerously from a thread? Or hanging dangerously from a thread? Over the dark chasm. Over the dark chasm. Of annihilation. Of annihilation. In some distant and unknown land. In some distant and unknown land. We need to do an annihilation again. Pick it up from there. Of annihilation. Of annihilation. In some distant and unknown land. In some distant and unknown land. Okay, got it? Maybe disaster and human shipwreck. Maybe disaster and human shipwreck. Are necessary for life.
Are necessary for life. To reach its highest peak. To reach its highest peak. Perhaps when death is present. Perhaps when death is present. Life rises. Life rises. Takes hold. Takes hold. Asserts itself. Asserts itself. And shouts. And shouts. Very nice, but they're a little too. Yeah, well, but you're too close together verbally. And I don't know if I can edit that. Take your voice out. So you need a little bit more pause in between you two. From the beginning? Probably. Maybe disaster and human shipwreck. Maybe disaster and human shipwreck. Are necessary for life to reach its highest peak.
Are necessary for life to reach its highest peak. Perhaps when death is present. Perhaps when death is present. Life rises. Takes hold. Asserts itself. And shouts. Life rises. Asserts itself. And takes hold. And shouts. Life rises. Takes hold. Asserts itself. And shouts. Life rises. Asserts itself. Takes hold. And shouts. It's a little out of order, but is that okay? That's okay.
Okay. Okay.
- Series
- ¡Colores!
- Episode Number
- 1008
- Raw Footage
- Sabine Ulibarri Mayhem Read 2
- Producing Organization
- KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Contributing Organization
- New Mexico PBS (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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- cpb-aacip-191-0966t291
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- Program Description
- Sabine Ulibarrí reads lines from his book Mayhem. (Audio only)
- Series Description
- This is raw footage for COLORES! #1008 “Mayhem was Our Business: Memorias de un Veterano.” For Memorial Day, New Mexico’s renowned author and poet, Sabine Ulibarri, shows viewers a different side. He gives a humorous, chilling and poignant account of his experiences as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber during W.W.II. Born in Tierra Amarilla, Ulibarri, discusses his great pride in New Mexico, the patriotism of northern Hispanics, naming his bomber “El Lobo”, horrendous bombing missions, watching comrades die, and his overall view of war.
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- #2
- Raw Footage Description
- Ulibarrí reads lines from his book Mayhem. (Audio only)
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- Raw Footage
- Genres
- Unedited
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:20:17.517
- Credits
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Producing Organization: KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
Speaker: Ulibarrí, Sabine Reyes
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Format: Betacam
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “¡Colores!; 1008; Mayhem was Our Business: Memorias de un Veterano; Sabine Ulibarri Mayhem Read 2,” New Mexico PBS, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-0966t291.
- MLA: “¡Colores!; 1008; Mayhem was Our Business: Memorias de un Veterano; Sabine Ulibarri Mayhem Read 2.” New Mexico PBS, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-0966t291>.
- APA: ¡Colores!; 1008; Mayhem was Our Business: Memorias de un Veterano; Sabine Ulibarri Mayhem Read 2. Boston, MA: New Mexico PBS, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-0966t291