Nearly 500 Californians have lost their lives while in service to their country in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 58 were immigrants; more than 160 were parents, who left behind more than 300 children. One descended from two presidents; another was a Guatemalan street orphan taken in by an American family as a teenager. One high school lost six of its graduates.
The above from an article in the Los Angeles Times describing a study by the paper to be published Sunday.
“He was Mexican, but he thought like an American. And he gave his life for this country.”