Mexican Heritage Plaza exhibit notes the valor of Latino vets – San Jose From: mercurynews.com
Tagged: California, prison, San JosePosted on: May 21st, 2008
A new exhibit at the Mexican Heritage Plaza has opened just in time for Memorial Day.
The centerpiece of “Witness to Heritage/Legacy of Valor” commemorates the 41 Latino veterans who have won the Medal of Honor. Other displays showcase the history of Hector Garcia, a World War II vet who founded the American G.I. Forum in 1948, and Everett Alvarez Jr., a decorated pilot who was a prisoner of war for 8 1/2 years during the Vietnam War.
If Alvarez’s name is familiar, that might be because he has a high school named for him in his hometown of Salinas.”*
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