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Serretta Malaikham graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communication from UTC in May 2022. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Serretta Malaikham remembers sitting in the backseat of a car. She remembers \u201cyelling and bodies falling.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all she remembers about the day her father shot her mother and uncle just outside the car, killing them both. He later took his own life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my brain has really tried to push a lot of that out. I think I grew accustomed to hating talking about it,\u201d said Malaikham, who was three years old when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

A May 2022 graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communication from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Malaikham has started talking about it\u2014a decision that began with a project she completed for Rising Rock, the storytelling class that features pieces written, photographed, videotaped and broadcast by UTC students.<\/p>\n

In her project, \u201cJourney to Freedom<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d she documented the dangerous and terrifying journey her grandparents\u2014 Manichanh and Khampoon Sonexayarath\u2014made when they fled their home in the Southeastern Asian country of Laos during the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong were killing anyone they said was disobeying their orders or they thought might be collaborating with the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was going to die. I didn\u2019t think I was going to become a person. They were killing everyone from left to right,\u201d Manichanh said in \u201cJourney to Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her family eventually made it to Nashville, where they still live. After the death of her birth parents, Malaikham\u2019s grandparents adopted her. She now calls them Mom and Dad.<\/p>\n

Her birth mother was the daughter of Manichanh, but the family never talked about the details of her death. She said she doesn\u2019t remember anything clearly about her birth parents and knows what they look like only through photographs.<\/p>\n

Her grandparents don\u2019t even know she\u2019s now talking about the killings at all, she admitted hesitantly with a slightly embarrassed smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is actually the first time I\u2019ve decided to be kind of upfront about my story just because I don\u2019t like the whole pity feeling whenever I tell people what happened in my life,\u201d Malaikham said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t let that story define me and I don\u2019t want that to be a part of who I am because I\u2019m way more than just what happened to me when I was three.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Serretta Malaikham was the subject of a video feature sharing her powerful story.<\/p><\/div>\n

She credits the bravery of telling the details of the deaths to Billy Weeks, creator and director of Rising Rock. After she finished \u201cJourney to Freedom,\u201d he insisted there had to be more to her grandparents\u2019 story.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018It wasn\u2019t just rainbows and sunshine as soon as they got to America.\u2019 So then we just had a whole heart-to-heart, and I opened up to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was honestly the reason why I decided to push more with the story because he was like, \u2018You shouldn\u2019t let your mom\u2019s legacy die with you. She deserves to be honored, too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Weeks described her ability to tell stories with photographs as \u201csimply amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHer images are always technically sound with beautiful composition, but what her images do best are tell stories. I always feel like I know the people in each of her photographs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSerretta has been able to bring that same kind of compassion to her other communication skills like writing and audio.\u201d<\/p>\n

She combines those skills in \u201cJourney to Freedom\u201d Weeks said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis story is a great example of Serretta\u2019s communication skills and it leaves me with a lasting description.\u201d<\/p>\n

She had never asked her grandparents about their personal story until her Rising Rock project was due in about a week, she said. Sitting in their car in their driveway and listening to her grandmother talk gave Malaikham more than just a finished assignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so more empathizing with how she was feeling in those moments of escaping,\u201d Malaikham said. \u201cMy mom has extreme anxiety, and now it makes so much sense why she does.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know growing up, mom\/ daughter relationships are always kind of rocky. This actually made us a lot closer.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an updated version of a story that first appeared in the spring 2022 issue of <\/em>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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