Macario Garcia receiving his Congressional Medal of Honor from President Truman. 1945.
Many people had to pressure Ken Burns to include soldiers of Mexican descent in his upcoming series on World War II - Apparently he didn't know about Macario Garcia and many Latino military heroes. There have been a number of immigrant soldiers who brought honor to their units during World War II and later (my father and uncle were two of them).
Macario Garcia was one of the most important soldiers of WWII. He was an immigrant (who probably came without documents) from northern Mexico and came to Texas with his family when he was ten. He lived near Sugar Land, Texas and joined the U.S. Army in 1943. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1945 for extreme valor during a campaign in the Hurtegen Forest in Germany..
As our senators consider joining the DREAM ACT to a military bill, perhaps they can think of Macario Garcia... immigrants make great soldiers --
Now - I would rather young immigrants all go to college... but the military is also honorable- if the Congress decides to pull out our troops from Iraq, new recruits will not be in so much danger...
ADDENDUM: see post of July 24, 2007
Dream and and the Military- with Iraq still in the Equation, Its a Bad Idea
The Iraq Bill that would have contained the Dream Act stalled again in the Senate. It doesn't look like our lawmakers want to stand up to the administration and the Republican Party. With this dangerous position (or lack of) combining the Dream Act with the military bill is unfair to students who cannot go to college.
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