Editor’s note: This Veterans’ Day, Gerry and Rudy Gonzalez, two sons of the Rio Grande Valley, are traveling to Washington, D.C. for a memorial event to honor their uncle, Rudy Gonzalez. Rudy lost his life saving others during a helicopter rescue mission in Vietnam. He was not yet an American citizen but told his parents he wanted to earn the honor by serving in the U.S. military.
The government has refused to posthumously make Rudy a citizen, but his nephews are determined to see he is properly honored with citizenship.
Gerry is an accomplished network news cameraman and his brother Rudy, his uncle’s namesake, is a Pulitzer-winning photographer, and it has been sixty years since their uncle was lost in combat. They hope to “make him whole.”
There will be brief ceremonies this weekend at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C. on Saturday and then Sunday at National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virginia. To learn more, or to help defer costs, visit UncleRudy.net.
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