These three little words bring up different feelings in me. Border makes me think about being imprisoned, marginalized, and disenfranchised. Frontera reminds me of the frontier untamed, not cultured, and uncouth. El otro lado, as we always called Nuevo Laredo, was connecting with family, and a continuation of my world. I use all three words [...]
In a weird way I have Ken Burns to thank for motivating me to learn more about my grandfather’s World War II experience. In the wake of Burns’ omission, then cursory inclusion, of Latinos in his documentary on World War II, “The War,” my uncle and I have been swapping my late grandfather’s war stories. [...]
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