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  • “I grew up when that happened.”

    Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.

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    Recorded in Chicago, IL
  • “We had to sit in the back of the class.”

    Linda Hernandez remembers growing up as one of the few Latinos in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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    Recorded in Albuquerque, NM
  • “It was hard not to be mom.”

    Sergeant Marilyn Gonzalez and her daughter Specialist Jessica Pedraza remember deploying together to Iraq in 2010.

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    Recorded in Rockland, MA
  • “As a little baby you were always jumping.”

    Frank Barela and Frank Maestas talk to their grandson C.J. Maestas about his gymnastics career.

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    Recorded in Albuquerque, NM
  • “She was one of these women who would grab a rattlesnake by the tail and snap its head off.”

    Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

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    Recorded in Mesilla, NM
  • “I worked harder than I have ever thought of working.”

    Three stories about student mentors called "Chasers" who do whatever it takes to get their kids to class.

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    Recorded in Pasadena, CA
  • “I started playing basketball and opportunities just opened up for me.”

    Jose Rodriguez tells his former coach Charles Zelinsky how he got involved in the Special Olympics.

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    Recorded in Trenton, NJ
  • “When he was growing up, he was living in South Texas...”

    Ricardo Isais Zavala remembers his grandfather, Vicente Domingo Villa, in an interview with his son, Ricardo Javier Zavala.

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    Recorded in Austin, TX
  • “I didn't even think twice.”

    Umberto Joseph DeJesus talks to his wife, Nancy Cardona, about volunteering at Ground Zero.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “There was nothing more that I wanted to do than to protect you.”

    Two stories about teachers who went beyond the classroom to help their kids.

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    Recorded in Hampton, VA
  • “I'm curious how I could have reached out to you better?”

    Antero Garcia talks to his former student Roger Alvarez who dropped out during his senior year of high school.

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    Recorded in Culver City, CA
  • “I felt like you were this little angel on my shoulder wherever I was going.”

    Scott Wall and his wife, Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall, talk about their long-distance courtship that began on New Year's Eve.

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    Recorded in San Francisco, CA
  • “In my old school, I never went to class.”

    Meliza Arellano tells Sarah Benko, her former seventh-grade teacher, about how she became a serious student.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “My coworker sent you that email by mistake.”

    Rachel Salazar and her husband, Ruben, remember how their romance started with a typo.

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    Recorded in Waco, TX
  • “I wasn't like other kids.”

    Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago.

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    Recorded in Madison, WI
  • “My dad in Cuba said, 'When you go there you're going to ask for George.'”

    Jose "Pepe" Noriega , one of over 14,000 children who came to the U.S. as part of Operation Pedro Pan, speaks with Lynn Guarch Pardo about the role her father, Jorge "George" Guarch, played in the historic airlift.

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    Recorded in Coral Gables, FL
  • “She was everything to me.”

    Gladys and Carolina de la Torre remember their older sister Azucena who was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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    Recorded in Orlando, FL
  • “I think I could have done another 31 years.”

    Retired New York City sanitation worker Angelo Bruno (L) speaks with his friend and former partner, Eddie Nieves (R), about working together on their daily route.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “They'd come in limping and they would literally leave walking.”

    Carlos Mosqueda tells his daughter, Cindy, about how his father healed people in their East LA home.

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    Recorded in Los Angeles, CA
  • “How come I didn't scare you?”

    Hilda Chacón and her husband, Pedro Morán-Palma, remember when they first met twenty years ago.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
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