"Oh, I had to go. I thought, it'll be a change. I'll get to travel. I was so happy that I did join, that I got a good job."~Carmen Contreras Bozak, VOCES Oral History Project, 2002 Born on New Years Eve 1919, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, near San Juan,…

"Yesterday, at 2am, we left the camp to attack the enemy that was waiting for us 2 miles away. I didn't know what kind of luck I was going to have. I only knew that my battalion was the first to attack. God wanted me to be able to give you another…