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09/01/2026

La Feria Veterans Memorial Monument Project

Rest In Peace...
Acting legend Lee Marvin wasn't just a tough guy on the big screen, he was a legitimate American hero off it. Marvin enlisted in the Marine Corps at just 17 in order to "get into the action" as he put it. As a member of the 4th Marine Division, he took part in a staggering 21 amphibious assaults across the Pacific Theater, including the harrowing Battle of Saipan in 1944.

During this brutal campaign, Marvin was gravely wounded by machine-gun fire, suffering a shattered sciatic nerve that left him with a permanent limp and earned him a Purple Heart. His recovery was nothing short of extraordinary. Marvin endured over a year of grueling rehabilitation to relearn how to walk. Reflecting on his wartime experience, he once said, “The war was hell, but it forged me. You don’t forget the men you fought with or the ones you lost.”

His service left an indelible mark, shaping the stoic, no-nonsense persona that defined his performances in films like The Dirty Dozen and Point Blank. Marvin’s grit earned him admiration from peers, including fellow tough-guy actor Charles Bronson, who once said of Marvin, “Lee was the real deal. He didn’t just play a herohe lived it. Guys like him made the rest of us proud to serve.”

Marvin’s humility remained profound. “I’m no hero,” he insisted. “The real heroes are the ones who didn’t make it back.”
This hero passed away August 29, 1987 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. God Bless Lee Marvin and all our Greatest Generations heroes.

09/01/2026

OUR JOB FAIRS ARE BACK!

Get ready for the LARGEST JOB FAIR IN HARLINGEN!
Join us and connect with employers, explore job opportunities, and take the next step toward your future!

📅 Date: Wednesday, September 16th
🕘 Time: 9am - 12pm
📍 Location: Harlingen Convention Center,
701 Harlingen Heights Dr., Harlingen, TX. 78552

🔗 Register today: https://bit.ly/45LZZHv

09/01/2026

Shop local. Cruise classic. Make a day of it!

09/01/2026

Get ready for another great Market Days in Downtown Harlingen! Join us Saturday, September 5, from 9 AM–3 PM for a fun-filled day featuring:

✨ 150+ local vendors
🎶 Live music
🍴 Delicious food
🛍️ Unique shopping & handmade treasures
☀️ Fun for the whole family
📍 Jackson Street, Centennial Park & Van Buren Ave.

Bring your friends, bring the family, and spend your Saturday supporting the amazing local businesses and makers that make Downtown Harlingen special!
Come shop. Come eat. Come play. Come experience Market Days! ❤️🧡

09/01/2026

Thank you, Dolly, for your enduring commitment to protecting our natural world and inspiring others to care for it. Your legacy will continue for generations to come. Sending a Texas-sized hug to the heart of Tennessee.

Photo taken at the 2009 Great Smoky Mountains National Park's 75th anniversary celebration, where Dolly was honored as the Official Ambassador.

07/18/2026

Didnt La Feria Lee school have one of those stairs?

07/03/2026

La Feria Veterans Memorial Monument Project

Approximately 10,000–11,000 American women served in Vietnam, with the vast majority 90% serving as nurses in the Army, Navy, or Air Force Nurse Corps. Yet for years after the war, many of these women were effectively erased from official narratives — some Pentagon officials even told inquiring veterans that “there were no women in Vietnam.”

These young nurses average age around 23, many with less than two years of experience worked in horrific conditions under rocket and mortar attacks, triaging massive casualties, and achieving remarkable survival rates for wounded soldiers who reached them quickly.

Eight women died in Vietnam all nurses and their names are engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Many returned home to face not only PTSD but also disbelief or dismissal of their service, making them among the most overlooked veterans of the war. Their stories highlight incredible courage and resilience during a deeply divisive conflict.

To read over twenty harrowing stories of nurses and women who served and fought in war please check out the book, "Women in War" by David Yuzuk. Available as a Paperback, Audiobook and eBook.

Amazon US paperback Link: https://a.co/d/0dbDhZPP

07/03/2026

La Feria Veterans Memorial Monument Project

Lest We Forget...
US Air Force Medal of Honor recipient Technical Sergeant John Chapman:
On March 4, 2002, Sergeant Chapman was serving as a Special Tactics Combat Controller, attached to a Navy SEAL Team conducting reconnaissance operations in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan. During insertion, the team’s helicopter was ambushed causing a teammate to fall into an entrenched group of enemy combatants below.

Sergeant Chapman and the team voluntarily reinserted onto the snow-capped mountain, into the heart of a known enemy stronghold to rescue one of their own. Without regard for his own safety, Sergeant Chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire from multiple directions.

He fearlessly charged an enemy bunker, up a steep incline in thigh-deep snow and into hostile fire, directly engaging the enemy. Upon reaching the bunker, Sergeant Chapman assaulted and cleared the position, killing all enemy occupants. With complete disregard for his own life, Sergeant Chapman deliberately moved from cover only 12 meters from the enemy, and exposed himself once again to attack a second bunker, from which an emplaced machine gun was firing on his team.

During this assault from an exposed position directly in the line of intense fire, Sergeant Chapman was struck and injured by enemy fire. Despite severe, mortal wounds, he continued to fight relentlessly, sustaining a violent engagement with multiple enemy personnel before making the ultimate sacrifice. By his extraordinary valor, sacrificing his life for the lives of his teammates, Technical Sergeant Chapman upheld the highest traditions of the military.

05/20/2026

La Feria Veterans Memorial Monument Project

There is very little that Josephine Baker didn’t know about resistance. After leaving her native Louisiana to star in a French cabaret on the Champs Elysee she became famous in France. During her rise to fame in Paris, she became an iconic entertainer of the Jazz Age, and becoming the richest Black woman of the time. She was nicknamed The Creole Goddess of France.

Her life in Paris made her particularly interesting to Jacques Abtey, the head of French counter-military intelligence. Her fame and her job allowed her to travel during the war without suspicion. Baker used her celebrity to gain access to high-ranking Axis officials and attended diplomatic parties to gain secret knowledge on German intelligence and troop movements in Paris. Abtey asked Baker to engage in espionage missions for the French after it fell to N**i occupation, to which she said yes.

Baker smuggled hundreds of classified documents and visas for other spies and resistance workers who hid in her Chateau. When the Chateau was raided by German troops, she fled to England, with visas and secret information all written on her sheet music in invisible ink. Discovery of such information or any evidence of illicit activities at the Chateau would have meant certain death for Baker, yet she never stopped seeking out and gathering information.

By the time she left for England, she was basically public enemy number one of the N**is. She was a successful Black woman in an in*******al marriage with a Jewish man. She returned after the war was over to raise money for the starving French people of Paris.

Josephine was awarded with the Croix de Guerre and the Rosette de la Résistance. She was also named a Chevalier de Légion d’honneur, the highest order of merit for military and civil action in France. This hero passed away on April 12, 1975.

To learn more about our brave WWII Spies please check out the book, Spy, Lie, and Defy: The Untold True Stories of World War II's Bravest Women

Amazon Book. link: https://a.co/d/0faeTzFl

05/20/2026

Sometimes the best campsite is the one with no Wi-Fi, no drama, and no people asking questions. 😂🌲