"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,…

“Mom, we're deploying tomorrow.”~Lori Piestewa, call to her mother from Fort Bliss, February 16, 2003 Born in Tuba City, Arizona, in 1980, Lori Piestewa was the daughter of a Hopi Native American father and a Mexican-American mother. Her family had a…

"Escogiste servir a tu pueblo de un modo nada aceptable en tu tiempo,Eres vista como algo fuera de lo comun, pero aun necesaria,Porque pedras ser lo que fueiste hasta ese entonces para la sociedad;"(You choose to serve your people in a way not…