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WE APPRECIATE OUR 2026 LEGACY LUNCHEON SPONSORS

1. CITGO Refining

2. Wyatt Ranches

3. Dr. Osbert Blow and Dr. Nelly Blow

4. KIII TV 3

5. KRIS TV

6. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

7. Christus Spohn Health Systems

8. HEB

9. Mr. Jim Akers and Mrs. Cecilia Garcia Akers

10. IBC Bank

11. Port of Corpus Christi 

12. Mike Shaw / Military VIP

13. Oceans Behavioral Hospital

14. Ms. Barbara Canales & Mr. Doug Allison

15. American Heart Association

16. Texas A&M University-Kingsville

17. The Honorable State Representative Todd Hunter

18. American G.I. Forum of Corpus Christi

19. Texas State Aquarium

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21. Amisatad Community Health Center

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25. Hicks Automotive Group

26. Robstown Utility Systems

27. Incarnate Word Academy 

28. Linbarger Attorneys at Law 

29. Palacios Educational Consulting

30. Chemours

31. Canales & Simonson, PC

32. CC Regional Transportation Authority

33. Double Tree by Hilton

34. Del Mar College

35. Dream Team Realtor/Shirley & Raymond Gallagher

36. Mark Roach

37. Leadership Empowerment Group, Dr. Barbara Baggerly-Hinojosa

38. Incarnate Word Academy
    

39. LULAC Council 1

I think this is the most important thing that has happened to the Mexican-American people -that we now feel that we belong to this country. That this is truly our "country" and we may keep our pride and our dignity. That we are Mexican in origin and in blood, but we also now have the feeling that we are accepted as Americans also!

Below is a transcript of a 1969 interview with David G. McComb. This interview is part of the LBJ Library which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration

Transcript

INTERVIEWEE: HECTOR GARCIA
INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. MC COMB
July 9, 1969

MCCOMB: Let me identify the tape first of all. This is an interview with Dr. Hector Garcia. I'm in his office in Corpus Christi, Texas, at 1315 Bright Street. The date is July 9, 1969, and my name is David McComb.

Now you gave me this copy of the GI Forum program of the 21^st Annual Founders' Day Banquet which has a capsule biography of you here, which I will place into the record so that anybody using this tape will have the opportunity to use this. There are several points about this that I'd like to ask you about. In the first place it says you were born in Mexico, and I'd like to know when you came to the United States.

GARCIA:  Well, Mr. McComb, I came to the United States when I was only about three and a half to four years old. I was not quite four and I was a little bit over three, so I would say approximately four years old.