“Estoy muy feliz!” (I am very happy.) My battle is over and it should never have happened. This is not an excuse but at the time, I was suffering from anxiety after coming back from the war. There were not enough resources for help and I fell into…

"The American GI Forum started with the Felix Longoria case, we had gone into police brutality, lack of representation in juries, lack of representation in draft boards. I knew civil rights [as a Mexican-American]. I knew the problems, I knew where…

“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…