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Jesus Herrera	World War II	By Jennifer Lindgren Jesus Herrera risked his life as a Navy corpsman in Okinawa in May of 1945, assisting wounded soldiers under heavy enemy fire and, twice, rescuing hurt Marines and helping them to safety – while still under fire.... Read More	Jane O’Brien
Jesse Herrera	Vietnam	By the Voces Staff Jesse Herrera grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working-class neighborhood where many of his peers went straight from high school to jobs in the steel mills. That wasn't the future he wanted for himself.... Read More	Manuel Aviles-Santiago
Daniel M. Hinojosa	Vietnam	By Amy Bingham As the first rays of sun peeked over the horizon, Daniel Hinojosa slowly opened his swollen, mosquito-bitten eyelids. The familiar sight of thick, damp jungle surrounded him. Inside his Army boots, Hinojosa felt the... Read More	Amy Bingham
Tony Holguin	World War II	By Jason Weddle Tony Holguin would rather talk about golf than about the time he spent as a soldier in the Army during World War II. He even says he might very well have been the Tiger Woods of his day. To Holguin’s credit, there... Read More	William Luna
Alfred Hurtado	World War II	By Cara Seo, California State University, Fullerton If anyone deserves to be called an American war hero it's Alfred Hurtado. He survived the Normandy Invasion as well as the Battle of the Bulge and received 11 medals, including the... Read More	Joseph Padilla
Ed Idar	World War II, Political & Civic Engagement	By Liliana Martinez When Ed Idar was a teenager living in Buenos Aires, a neighborhood in Laredo, Texas, he never thought he’d volunteer as a civilian for Station X in England, and go to India and China while in the Army. "I came to... Read More	Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Genoveva Islas	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Genoveva works as the founder and director of the non-profit Cultiva la Salud, which works to promote health equity in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She works as a public health and policy advocate, utilizing her... Read More	Dominique Montiel Valle
Francisco Xavier Jacques	World War II	By Hiram Jacques When he attempted to join the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Francisco “Frank” Xavier Jacques of the West Texas town of Sweetwater was turned away because of his lack of education; he’d only been to the... Read More
Joe Jaime	World War II	By Ryan Martinez After a childhood spent dealing with discrimination in a small Kansas City-area community, Joe Jaime figured once drafted in 1942 into the Army, he’d finally get the chance to earn his American citizenship and ease the... Read More	Mary Sanchez
Hernan E. Jaso	Vietnam	By Alex Loucel “You can follow around and ask anyone 50 to 100 miles about Hernan Jaso, and you’ll find that somebody knows the kid,” Jaso said of himself. After his tour of duty in Vietnam, Jaso turned to public policy and a goal of... Read More	Tina Hughes
Jesus Jasso	World War II	Mexican immigrants Antonio Jasso and Genoveva Ramirez Jasso, who picked cotton in South Texas, would see five of their sons go off to war. Their granddaughter, Evelyn Jasso Garcia, set out to record their story, and that of her... Read More
Francisco Jasso	World War II	Mexican immigrants Antonio Jasso and Genoveva Ramirez Jasso, who picked cotton in South Texas, would see five of their sons go off to war. Their granddaughter, Evelyn Jasso Garcia, set out to record their story, and that of her... Read More
Trinidad Jasso	World War II	Mexican immigrants Antonio Jasso and Genoveva Ramirez Jasso, who picked cotton in South Texas, would see five of their sons go off to war. Their granddaughter, Evelyn Jasso Garcia, set out to record their story, and that of her... Read More
Tomas Jasso	World War II	Mexican immigrants Antonio Jasso and Genoveva Ramirez Jasso, who picked cotton in South Texas, would see five of their sons go off to war. Their granddaughter, Evelyn Jasso Garcia, set out to record their story, and that of her... Read More
Antonio R. Jasso	World War II	Mexican immigrants Antonio Jasso and Genoveva Ramirez Jasso, who picked cotton in South Texas, would see five of their sons go off to war. Their granddaughter, Evelyn Jasso Garcia, set out to record their story, and that of her... Read More
Joe Ramirez Jasso	World War II	By Tony Cantú Among his siblings, four of whom would join him in the war effort, Jose Ramirez "Joe" Jasso is remembered as el cabezudo, the hard-headed one of the bunch, always getting into trouble as a youth. Jasso had grown... Read More	Mrs. Evelyn Jasso-Garcia
Antonio Jasso	World War II	By Sarah Culler Antonio Jasso wanted to make sure no one considered him a war hero. “I didn’t see no war … I’m not gonna take credit or say that I saw action. I didn’t. I was, thanks to God, a cook in the Navy. I had it made in... Read More	Mr. John Jasso
Fernando Jimenez	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Fernando Jimenez was born in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, and at 27 years old found himself in the United States in pursuit of the “American Dream.” Since his first day in the U.S., work has been his main... Read More	Vincent Peña
Charles Paul Jones	Vietnam	By Catherine Murphy Growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Charles Paul Jones was no stranger to diversity. Jones’ neighborhood on the west side of town included Belgians, Germans, Hispanics, Italians and Lebanese. “It was a Brooklyn... Read More	Catherine Murphy
Julius V. Joseph	World War II	By Jacob Collazo At the onset of the Korean War in 1952, Julius V. Joseph, a veteran of World War I and II called his local recruiting office to volunteer his service. The recruiter asked Joseph if he had ever served in the military,... Read More	Jacob Collazo
Manuel Juarez	World War II	By Cheryl Smith Kemp When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, 14-year-old Manuel Juarez was raring to go. “I had been keeping up with the war in Europe, so I was more or less aware of what was going on,” recalled Juarez... Read More	George Dobosh
Anastacio Juarez	World War II	By Juan de la Cruz As the only Mexican American in his troop, Anastacio Perez Juarez experienced problems not normally encountered by other soldiers. Because of his limited English, even the simplest commands -- forward, march, halt,... Read More	Alicia Perez
Ruperto Soto Juarez	World War II	By Amanda Crane Ruperto Soto Juarez, of Norwalk, Ca., has not had an easy life: he was orphaned as an adolescent; he quit school as a child, he fibbed about his age in order to join the Navy and serve his country in WWII. He has been a... Read More	Valerie Talavera-Bustillos
Rafaela Navarro Juarez	World War II	By Rebecca De Leon At the age of 18, Rafaela Navarro’s faith was tested. In 1942, her soon-to-be husband, Anastacio Juarez, was called to fight in World War II, leaving her and his family to fret about his safety. Anastacio’s cousin... Read More	Julio C. Ovando
Albert Henry Kauffman	Political & Civic Engagement	By Amayeli Arnal-Reveles Al Kauffman's middle-class background, attending segregated schools in Galveston, Texas, might not have seemed to prepare him for a role in Mexican American civil rights. But other aspects of his life - he was a... Read More	Amayeli Arnal-Reveles
Beatrice Amado Kissinger	World War II	By Amanda Traphagan World War II gave Beatrice Amado Kissinger a ticket out of her small-town life in southern Arizona and into the big city adventure of serving as a Navy nurse in San Francisco. When the United States entered the... Read More	Ernesto Portillo
George J Korbel	Political & Civic Engagement	By Vinicio Sinta For George Joseph Korbel, going back to Pearsall, Texas, a city about 55 miles southwest of San Antonio, unearthed memories of a time when Mexican American and black Texans were almost completely excluded from the... Read More	Mr. Vinicio Sinta
Luis J. Landin	Korean Conflict, Vietnam	By Brett Alexander "When you get ambushed, you're supposed to get killed." That's what the Army tells every soldier during training, Luis Landin said. "But for me," he added, "my life consisted of events that weren't normal, so... Read More	Raquel Garza
Alfonso Lara	World War II	The Other Soldiers Little-remembered treaty sent 300,000 sons of Mexico to the United States during WWII; their weapons were their labor-hardy bodies By Violeta Dominguez The battlefield wasn’t the only place where... Read More	Violeta Dominguez
Joe Henry Lazarine	World War II	By Cheryl Smith Kemp Joe Henry Lazarine’s interview is more of a conversation between two old friends than a question and answer session. After all, Lazarine was raised in Beeville, and so was interviewer Eloy Rodriguez, the son of one of... Read More	Eloy Rodriguez
Josephine Kelly Ledesma Walker	World War II	By Monica Rivera When she was being trained as an airplane mechanic in the 1940s, Josephine Ledesma was the only woman in her training group. Later, as an airplane mechanic at Bergstrom Air Field, she was one of three women out of her... Read More	Monica Rivera
Salvador S Leon	World War II	By Melanie Boehm Salvador León had a choice during World War II: either take the automatic deferment provided for a family's last son not in the military, or serve his country. Salvador went anyway. "My mom said, 'This country... Read More	Ismael Martinez
Joe G. Lerma	World War II	By Chris Nay Even before arriving at the European concentration camps in 1945, Joe Lerma of San Diego and his division could smell the dead. "The sight and smell of human death is terrible," he said. His division's job was to... Read More	Rene Zambrano
Leon Leura $Leon\Jack\"Leura after basic training in Sharon, PA in Dec. 1942."$	World War II	By ISMAEL MARTINEZ In the beginning of 1944, 22-year-old Tech. Pvt. Leon "Jack" Leura was among the American troops able to cross the raging Rapido River, and help gain control of Italy. That summer, a wounded Leura would be taken prisoner... Read More	Frank O. Sotomayor
Mario Lewis	Political & Civic Engagement	In high school in El Paso, TX, Mario Lewis was told to forget college, that he “could not compete with Anglos,” recalled Lewis, a Mexican American. But others saw promise in Lewis as he became active in the Junior League of United Latin American... Read More
Robert Leyva	World War II	By Andrea R. Williams In the midst of conflict, Robert Leyva sometimes would think the enemy troops killed in World War II could have been among his friends in another time and place. This kind of love of mankind is a mainstay in Leyva's... Read More	Andrea Williams
Luis Leyva	World War II	By Monica Flores Feeling like a full-fledged American despite lacking a U.S. birth certificate, Luis Leyva never let his Mexican citizenship status affect his dedication to his adopted homeland. Born to Mexican parents Guadalupe... Read More	Mary Alice Carnes
Alejandro M. Lizárraga	Korean Conflict	The late 1940s and 1950s were tense times in America. Fear of Communism was spreading, and Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union were growing. In 1950, communist North Korea sent troops into South Korea, and the U.S. came to South Korea’s aid,... Read More	Martin Lizarraga
Teresa Lozano Long	Political & Civic Engagement	By Lindsay Fitzpatrick Growing up on her parents’ dairy farm in South Texas, Teresa Lozano Long learned the importance of education and philanthropy early in life. “My parents believed that you went to school everyday,” Lozano Long... Read More	Brenda Sendejo
Heriberto Longoria	World War II	by Minette Hernandez MCALLEN, Texas -- Ask Heriberto Longoria, Sr. about the license plate on his 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis, and he will proudly tell you the piece of metal, which displays a Purple Heart, cost him only three dollars. To... Read More	Minette Hernandez
Felix Longoria	World War II	By Ashlyn Shadden When Felix Longoria enlisted in the Army in October of 1940 as a 20‐year‐old from the South Texas town of Beeville, he had no idea what he was getting into. Four years later, the United States was in the midst of... Read More	Oscar Gomez
Quirino Longoria	World War II	By Laura Carroll Quirino Longoria recalls joining the long Navy tradition of being initiated – or, according to some, hazed – a “Shellback” upon his virgin crossing of the Equator in 1945. New seamen are designated “Polliwogs” until they... Read More	Elizabeth Fisanick
Crecencio Lopez	World War II	By Nicole Dreyer As a ranch hand, Cresencio Lopez didn't get much news about what was happening overseas in World War II. Some neighbors and his cousin had been drafted, and it was hard to get information from them. Later, when Lopez was... Read More	Brian Lucero
Jose M. Lopez	World War II	By Ernie Carrido Jose M. Lopez is one of the 12 Latino World War II veterans to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military accolade. He had a difficult childhood, but maintained a fervent belief in the... Read More	Manuel Medrano
Severo Paul Lopez	World War II	By Sonia Alvarez and Joe Muller Due to his father's career as a casting agent and magazine entertainment writer, Severo Lopez always held a special place in his... Read More	Frank Sotomayor
Rudolph Lopez	Vietnam	By Stephanie De Luna Growing up in Phoenix, Rudolph “Rudy” Lopez knew that he was destined to serve in the military. Born in 1946, Lopez grew up in a close-knit family with a long line of military war heroes. “We were very... Read More	Valeria Fernandez
Vicenta Sanchez Lopez	World War II	By Mary Mejia In 1938, Vicenta Sanchez Lopez became the first Mexican American woman to graduate from her high school in her predominantly Anglo home town of Sonora, Texas, about 200 miles west of Austin. Just one year earlier, the first... Read More	Taylor Peterson
Elvira Orta Pardo Lopez	World War II	By Karina Valenzuela Elvira Orta Pardo Lopez's memories of World War II revolve around her brother, Apolonio “Polo” Pardo, Jr., whom she describes as a quiet and serious man. Polo got as far as the fifth grade before quitting to work... Read More
Joe V. Lopez	World War II	By Ronnie Zamora Joe Lopez can recall a time when serving in the military was the furthest thing from his mind. The idea of firing a rifle at an enemy was only a part of the childhood games he used to play with his brothers. Lopez... Read More	Steven Rosales
Genaro V Lopez	World War II	By Simon Wagner, St. Bonaventure University World War II "actually made a man out of me," Genaro V. Lopez told his son, Genaro, during their father-to-son interview for the Voces Oral History Project. Born April 8, 1925, in... Read More	Mr. Genaro C. Lopez

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