“The day I was eighteen, I was inducted into the military. And I actually became a citizen afterwards, in the military, in a place outside of Jacksonville, Florida, I was sworn into the—as an American citizen. I stayed in the military through basic…

“It was my moral obligation [document my experiences]. God gave me that ink to last." ~Anthony Acavedo, Oral History Interview with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 13, 2010 Born in San Bernardino, California in 1924, Anthony…