Hector López

Portrait by: Leopoldo Peña

134. Two Soldiers Left Behind

“If I die today, I can go back. But since I’m alive and deported, I can’t go back to the U.S. That doesn’t make any sense. As a veteran of the United States Armed Forces, I should be in the country that I served and defended, not because I’m deported, you know, I can’t go to the United States. But if I died, they’d let me in like nothing as long as I have my death certificate and my finger print that it’s me … If we are good enough to die for the United States, and good enough to kill for the United States, then we are damn well good enough to live in the United States.”

134. Two Soldiers Left Behind