Vonna Purtell

Growing up in a military family fundamentally shaped Vonna Purtell's ideas about her own family. The San Antonio mom and her three children, twins Zoe and Grace and brother, Kai, talked with Our China Stories as the Thanksgiving holiday neared.

`I think that's the reason why I'm so color blinded by race is because we moved around so much,` Vonna said. `I mean, my dad was stationed in Japan. We lived in Hawaii. And so we had friends and neighbors and everything of all different ethnicities and backgrounds. The military's made of multiracial people and so you saw it all the time and so it was never an issue for us. You saw it and you never thought twice about it.`