A S A TEENAGE RUNAWAY, Gemma Ra’Star DiFerdinando ended up in the Southwest in 2001 after hopping on a freight train with two Catahoula leopard dogs she found under a house. Through the kindness of…
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ONE BUSY AFTERNOON during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hallstrom received a call at his Albuquerque office. A young man had been injured in a tragic car…
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IN 1999, AT THE DEDICATION for the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, in Washington, D.C., then Senator Barack Obama read a statement inscribed on one of the memorial’s 18 glass panels…
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THE GRIZZLE-ALLISON FAMILY FARMS, where the three sons grew up, were situated in eastern New Mexico, about 30 miles south of Roswell, a city of about 40,000 people in the 1940s, near the small town of…
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A VETERAN AND A HORSE STAND inside a round pen in a quiet ranch near Santa Fe. At first, they are unsure of how to approach each other. Then something amazing happens. “This is not a cowboy program,”…
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1 Honor our vets. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center hosts Veterans Day activities on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Held in the courtyard, the event showcases an…
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IN HER EARLY TWENTIES, WHILE SERVING IN THE ARMY, Farmington native Beverly Charley felt her heart grow three times bigger. Charley was leading a supply convoy in Somalia when one of the vehicles…
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Above: American flags at Albuquerque's Fairview Cemetery mark the graves of veterans, whose collective service begins with the Civil War and runs through the Korean War at Fairview Memorial Park…
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Above: Kym Sanchez. Photograph by Allison Pharmkis. AFTER HER HUSBAND, Sergeant Paul Timothy Sanchez, was killed in action in Iraq in 2007, Kym Sanchez realized that the only way to help herself move…
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