It looks like you are using an ad blocker. That's okay. Who doesn't? But without advertising revenue, we can't keep making this site awesome. Click the link below for instructions on disabling adblock.
"I just feel that I owe this country a great deal," Barragan said by phone as he prepared for deployment in the battle zone. "I never believed that my education or professional success absolved me of a duty to serve."
"Whenever doubts crept in, Barragan revisited his motivations and thought about his mom, a single mother of Mexican heritage who raised him and two siblings by herself.
"We are all successes now by any measure," he said. "That's definitely a testament to her, but I don't believe it would have been possible in any other country. I just want to give back now."
