Carlos Harrison

They came from a single street in a railroad town called Silvis, Illinois, a tiny stretch of dirt barely a block-and-a-half long. The twenty-two Mexican-American families who lived on that one street sent fifty-seven of their children to fight in World War II and Korea, more than any other place that size anywhere in the country. Eight of those children died. It's a distinction recognized by the Department of Defense, and it earned that rutted, unpaved...