The event comes as the Air Force celebrates its 75th anniversary, and Holloman, a training base for pilots and sensor operators for fighter jets, observes its 80th.
Some 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. Early in 1942, the U.S. Department of Justice expanded a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Santa Fe, N.M., into one such holding center.
The recent Department of Veterans Affairs Asset and Infrastructure Review report recommended shutting down smaller VA medical clinics, including the one in Las Vegas, N.M. But veterans who regularly use the clinics aren’t having any of it.
More than 75 years after the end of World War II and just months after the death of the lone surviving Sanchez brother Henry, a U.S. Navy veteran family members have come together to honor them in their hometown.