Garza / Military Service, Part One
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0:30 My brother stayed with me, so we moved from Floresville to San Antonio where I started working at Kelly Airforce base and my son 0:30 My brother started going to Burbank where my poor brother he took[?] very badly very negative [?] of what had happened, but 0:30 then he, you know, first of all he had a high temper, and he didn't he didn't express any patience with the circumstances, he 0:30 Got into fights and all that, he did get married at an early age, girl that he married was older than him and I remember him tell me that 0:30 He said, "Trini, don't worry Jessie, I'm going to help him through his hard times." After six years, they divorced and he 0:30 [?] He is now back in Dallas after going through some [?] , but anyway I worked at Kelly, I started going to night school in San Antonio College. 0:30 Interviewer-"Where is this?" Mr. Garza-San Antonio College in San Antonio. Interviewer-"What year did you graduate from high school?" 0:30 Mr. Garza-From high school, I graduated in 1950
| Interview | Interview with Trini Garza |
| Subjects | Education › Higher Education |
| Military › Korean War | |
| Military › Military Draft | |
| Family › Parents | |
| Family › Siblings | |
| Tags | San Antonio College |
| G.I. Bill | |
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| Interview date | 2015-06-11 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Garza, Trini |
| Interviewers | Bynum, Katherine |
| Locations | Dallas, TX |
| San Antonio, TX | |
| Corpus Christi, TX | |
| Duration | 00:04:06 |
| Citation | "Military Service, Part One," from Trini Garza oral history interview with Katherine Bynum, June 11, 2015, Dallas, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/1426/military-service-2, accessed October 28, 2025 |
