That section of Highway 90 between IH 410 and IH 35 in San Antonio bears the name “Cleto Rodriguez Highway.” My father remembered him as “Anacleto” Luna Rodriguez, when Cleto was just a kid living in San Marcos, during a time in the late ‘20s and early ‘30s when everybody knew everybody else, in and …
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The Bravest of the Brave
I used this photo because although he is Vietnamese, he was caught in the act of doing what all Combat Medics and Navy Corpsmen do, very often at the cost of their lives. As compared to the widespread medical community, the enlisted men (and women) trained as Combat Medics and Navy Corpsmen have only basic …