Q Choose one of the World War II oral histories and identify their insight about their identities. And discuss how the oral histories connect to the idea of being and becoming from our earlier class discussion.
For the purpose of this short essay, I would be referring to the case of Meregildo Carrillo. He served in the army of the United States during World War II, in which he enrolled at the age of 18 and was born in San Angelo, Texas. Carillo recounts the hardships and difficulties which he encountered as a child due to lack of bare means of subsistence. His first experience of discrimination as a Mexican-American accrued when he had to pull back from school only after two days of formal education as “his enrollment caused an immediate uproar in the community, with families refusing to allow their children to ride on the same bus as him” ("Meregildo Carrillo | VOCES Oral History Project | The University of Texas at Austin", n.d.).
