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Article: Rolling with the changes: Garden Grove man says race is a nonissue for him now.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2005
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Byline: Andre Mouchard
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. _ Paul Gillette didn't see who threw the orange.
But he did see the Vietnamese kids the orange was thrown at. And he saw the white kids who took credit for throwing it.
He saw the Vietnamese kids challenge the white kids; saw the white kids accept the challenge; saw the large, escalating brawl that followed.
Gillette even saw the blood that spilled when one of the Vietnamese kids pulled a knife and slightly injured one of the white kids.
It was the biggest thing to happen at Bolsa Grande High School during Gillette's freshman year, 1975. And Gillette remembers the fight as if it ...