She hopes to ease transition for bilingual students
“I’m going back to school to become a bilingual teacher so I can work with younger kids. “We speak English with our daughter. But my mom only speaks Spanish, and I grew up initially only knowing...
Author: David Berkowitz
Second marriage perfect match for elderly couple
“We’ve been married for 37 years, I believe. This is our second go-round. Our other ones died. “One of the girls I used to ride the school bus with back in the ‘30s and ‘40s told...
Music helps soothe some of his anger issues
“I didn’t go to high school. I went to junior high, seventh grade, but I messed up a lot. I ruined my 13th birthday by going to school and kicking a basketball through a window. I...
Managing college and work can be exhausting
“I graduated from high school in 2013, so the expectation is that I finish college exactly four years later. That can be a lot of pressure, especially when I’m working fulltime. “I’ve worked since I was...
Army Air Corps training flight was nearly his last
“When I was young, I built model airplanes. I always wanted to fly. During World War II, I joined the Army Air Corps. “My last training flight was cross-country at night in a twin-engine plane. I...
Milkman to the original NASA astronauts
“It was hard to find work after the war. I didn’t have a college education. I went to watch repair school and did some watch repair work for a while. Later, I got a job as...
Long-distance relationship works for nurse, doctor
“I’m a nurse anesthetist and my husband is a physician. We worked together for 20 years here. Then for the past 10 years I’ve worked in Houston, while he’s been in El Paso and now McAllen....
After coming ‘unglued,’ she beats breast cancer
“You’re looking at somebody who’s had cancer. Breast cancer. When the doctor first told me, I came unglued. That just hit me like nothing I’ve ever experienced. “He told me, ‘We may have to cut your...
It’s never too late to thank Vietnam veterans
“When I was 15 or 16, I was drafted into the South Vietnamese Army. I fought in the Vietnam War. “Today, if you are a Vietnam veteran from America, I’ll give you a big hug. I...
He still carries trauma from Vietnam War
“I was very young when I was in the Vietnam War. I didn’t think about it a lot at the time because I just did what I was told to do. But the trauma, actually, I...
