Jose Garcia:  

My Story starts when I arrived in Laredo, Texas back in 1975. My dad had just joined the Border Patrol and his first assignment was Laredo. When we arrived here the Laredo Air Force Base had just recently closed. Someone had just brought the old barracks and made them make shift apartments. So my family lived there for a while until my dad found a house for rent on Corpus Christi Street. By then school started so we were told we will be attending J.W. Nixon. It was me and my brother Mike that went there. They assigned a person to walk us through the campus to show us where everything was. The student was Alisa Garcia. My first year at Nixon was shaky at best. No friends and new student. I kind of hung low and out of the radar. Just went to my class and talked when I was spoken to. I was taking a ROTC class and met a lot of people there. I would eventually join the drill team and attended many competitions. Later I joined Track because I had ran track at my previous high school (Falurrias High). The competition was a bit more harsh on the 5A level. I met many jocks there and many became good friends like Pancho Farias, Jerry Garcia, Luis Gonzalez (Peaches), Robert Laurel, Ronnie Chamberlin, Meme Fernandez (Penguin), Danny Gonzalez (Baloney), Marco Gonzalez, Juan Hernandez, Ronnie Miller, David Hardin, Chris Garza, Joe Santos and others. They all made be feel at home. Once I showed them I could actually run the rest was fun. I would see other people on campus and just say hi but I really did not "connect" with anyone except my track friends. I would go out on the weekends to the drive-in movies (Border Town) and parties but really did not know anyone except the persons that I went with. Then one day I was told about a Jr and Sr. Prom. We all planned to go together. At the last minute I ditched my date cause of something I found out that I did not like. So I kind of wanted to distance my self from that. One of my friends asked if I was intreste...Expand for more