Muralist Honors Latino Veterans
*Muralist Carlos Aguilar has spent three years painting an homage to the veterans of Santa Ana, California’s, Logan Street neighborhood. When finished there will be 160 faces on the wall of La Chiquita grocery store. VL
By Stacy Owen, NBC Los Angeles
It rises along the side of an unassuming grocery store, a tribute more than three years in the making.
Carlos Aguilar has spent hundreds of mornings spent climbing a ladder, balancing on a scaffold, to give names and faces to our veterans.
“I met this World War II veteran and I was so fascinated by his story, that left a seed inside my brain,” Aguilar said. “It grew and grew and, ‘I should paint a World War II memorial,’ and it grew from that.”
Aguilar dedicated more than three years to his vision to honor the vets of Santa Ana’s Logan Street neighborhood.People in the neighborhood bring him their pictures, and their stories, from World War II to Iraq.
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