AMERICAN DIARY: July Fourth has always been a painful holiday for AP writer RussContreras because of his Mexican American family’s past in the US. Then he thinks about his WWII uncle at Iwo Jima, who fought on even after he was injured.
This photo provided by Russell Contreras shows U.S. Marine Pfc. Ciprian Contreras, of Houston, in a World War II-era photo before being injured three times in the Pacific theater. In an essay, Associated Press writer Russell Contreras says the July Fourth holiday as a Mexican American has always troubled him because of his family's history in the U.S. But remembering his Uncle Ciprian Contreras' heroics as a U.S.
Yes, I relax, maybe throw some meat on the grill and take my family to a New Mexico desert mesa to watch fireworks among coyotes and rabbits. Independence Day pageantry doesn’t make me feel American, though; thanks to birth and chance, I have no other place to go.I’m angry that my elders had to go to segregated, dilapidated Mexican American schools and most died barely literate.
His brother, Carlos, my grandfather, also saw something. He begged his mother and father to sign a permission form to join the U.S. Army at 17 and he took part in the invasion of Nazi Germany. He sent a photo back to his mother with fellow soldiers. “In this good old army they do everything possible for their boys ... Keep praying for us,” Cpl. Contreras wrote.Ciprian and Carlos came back. Both earned mechanical engineering degrees, thanks to the G.I. Bill.
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