How Shall We Remember Them?

When you go to the USS Arizona memorial, you are given a ticket for the tour. On the back of each ticket is a bio of a young man who was killed during the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the surrounding bases. On my ticket was Rudolph M. Martinez Electrician’s Mate Third Class, from Sand Diego, California. He was stationed on the USS Utah. Here is what the card said about him: “First Mexican-American servicemen killed in WWII… Rudy Martinez was a young sailor that had joined the Navy just