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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 14, 2025