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VETERANS STORY: Meet the last MIG killer


Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez described his youthful home as, “Where we unpacked our luggage.” An admitted military brat, Rodriguez was born in El Paso, Texas, at Ft. Bliss, the son of a career Army soldier. He recalled, “My father was Puerto Rican and my mother was Cuban. We spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico when my father deployed to places like Thule, Greenland. When people ask me my roots, I use the analogy of the Saguaro Cactus. It grows a couple of inches per year; its roots are not deep but very wide to absorb nutrients. Well, military kids grow wide roots quickly at a new base; we learn a lot, even though we sometimes act like we don’t like it, we were ahead of other kids. I mean, when the teacher mentions a country or unfamiliar location, we could say, ‘Hey, I was there.’ We were global children, and my family still is. Our son is in Barcelona as an architect and our daughter just returned from a deployment to Korea.” ....

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