July 2016
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"The Kids Need a Bed Tonight"*
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Three days a week, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m they come and they wait. Three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday they come just to get a drop of reprieve from the outreach center; a bus pass to the VA or to get to a job…
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The "Protector" Saint of the Mexican Border*
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Sometime during the early summer of 1973, Jesus Gaytan and two friends began making their way north to the United States. They were planning to ‘”sneak” across the border and find work as farmhands. They did not care where, they just wanted to work. At the border their…
