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The Boys from the Barrio

As young men they stepped up to defend their country in the Vietnam War. Some fifty years later, these Scottsbluff “Barrio Boys" are working together to build awareness and memorialize Nebraska Panhandle Latinos who served, and sometimes died for, their country.

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Mike Tobias

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