For this story, Connie Rocha remembers the time she entered WWII at the young age of 16 where she began working at Kelly field as a sheet metal mechanic and then later after transferring to another repair depot in Hawai’i she continued to work as a aircraft mechanic till the end of the war and through this talks about how she gained her independence through her work during WWII. The story starts out with a somber guitar being played as the narrator of StoryCorps introduces her and describes her story to the listener. The Studio they were in undeniably used the right mics as she was talking and turned it to a volume that would allow her to be as normal as she can be telling her story, allowing her to show her emotions and her reactions in a light to where we the listeners can understand where she is coming from. The tone of her voice overall gave a sense of remembrance in a way that was both reflective and prideful of the path she took during WWII giving her the feeling that she, like a man, can also put her name in front of her cross when she passes away like the husband does.
Throughout her story, you could hear the raspy sound of her voice as she talked with the sound pressure level reaching no more than the threshold of hearing. Her dry laugh caught by the mic emphasized her long life. I would also say the frequency and pitch of her the sound was probably around the midrange level. Amplitude and loudness were just where it needed to be with both the background music and the voice audio. The reverb was low and there was limited background noise although at one instance in the story you could hear ambient noise which in that instance gave the story a kind of realism. One other thing about the story that stood out was near the end when her voice picked up as she talked about how she did as much as her husband and his fellow navy men did in the war. “You guys had a uniform on and a gun, But who fixed that gun for you?” and afterwards a more inspirational sounding guitar played as she made her point the debate with her husband.