Placida Peña Barrera
By: Emily Burgess
Placida P. Barrera vividly remembers her childhood days in the dry heat of Guerra, Texas, also known as "El Colorado" Ranch, where she’d help her father plant corn, pumpkins and watermelon.
Just as clearly, she recalls traveling thousands of miles and hundreds of hours across land and water with her husband, Air Force Sgt. Raymundo M. Barrera, and their six children.
Two of the children were born in Japan, and Barrera also lived in Korea, where her husband was an adviser to the Korean troops.