(Ed.'s Note: In observance of Veterans day 2018, we post this photo to remember the surge of patriotism exhibited by the citizen-soldiers of Brownsville during the nation's wars. The photo above shows a group of soldiers from the various services during the 1953 Charro Days parade. The Air Force, Navy, Marines and Army are all represented. The names of the soldiers attending Texas Southmost College are (not necessarily in order) Ray "Pat" Tamayo, Tacho Gomez, Ruben M. Torres, Joe Leal, and Charles Hernandez.
We know that Torres is the Marine, third from left. A section of FM 802 is named after him. He served two terms in the Texas Legislature as the local representative.What ever became of the rest of the soldiers? We thank one of our seven readers for the rare photo.)
5 comments:
Pat Tamayo became a Police officer in Brownsville and retired as a Lieutenant. He was one of my Supervisors. I learned a lot from him. My respect to his family. He was a good man.
To 12:30 and 1:15, your remarks were distasteful and disrespectful not only to all veterans but to the surviving family members of these great men in the picture. It is obvious neither one of you served in the military or care about the history of Brownsville or its citizens. Juan, as supportive that you have always been of local veterans, I cannot believe that you would allow these ugly comments on such a beautiful article. Shame on all of you.
TSC served many veterans that came back from WW II. Thank you to those in the photo and thank you to all that served. Many in Brownsville and the Valley contributed to the war effort on the home front, let's forget about them. Local Men, Women, and children were in the trenches
when it came to participating in war effort campaigns. There was certainly a passionate display of PATRIOTISM
Those in the photo were my friends...they served their country well
Thank you for the post...Great photo
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