As archivists of color, we rarely see ourselves in the collections we steward. Creating the Children of Refugees oral history project has given us a means of affirmation and validation for ourselves and our community at large. Our project focuses on the lived experiences of our Vietnamese American peers who were raised in the United States by Vietnamese refugee caregivers. The Vietnamese American experience has mainly been documented in archives as the refugee narrative of fleeing from war and resettlement. While the stories of our elders are important, we saw this as a gap in the historical record about our community, and wanted to add the voices of our generation to it. As archivists, we are acutely aware of the power that oral history has in connecting us to the people who were here before us and to one another, across the diaspora. By doing this project within our own community, we are not just speaking to our own, but also to the people who will be here after we are gone. As children of refugees, many of us have lost a lot of language, culture, and history within just one generation. These interviews are a small step to mitigate the loss that may happen with the next generation. They are also an acknowledgement that change will come, as they have for us and our elders, but that despite this perceived loss, we will remain whole in the face of these changes, and gain something more in the remembering, telling, and retelling of our stories.