Alberto Lara Rojo
Alberto Lara Rojo heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor the day after it happened.
“We didn’t know about it; we lived on the wrong side of town,” recalled the Mexican-American Navy veteran.
On that Monday, the Sunday attack on the American naval base in Hawaii was the talk of his high school in Marfa, Texas, where he was a freshman. Outside the school, other Mexican-American students told him, "It’s a gringo war. It does not affect us Spanish people."