It is sometimes misunderstood. Great leaders are creative in their approach to finding solutions. Representative Loretta Sanchez Brixley now follows in her foot steps as she challenges the established men of Orange County. It came from one of America's most influential men of the 1960 s, Bobby Kennedy, in his speech delivered to a group of Peace Corps Volunteers in Ghana in 1963. The power of this statement still rings true today as it challenged my generation to action.
Leadership is a valuable commodity, a matter of supply and demand.
This void accounts for the crisis in all sectors of society today. This state of affairs affects the Latino community the most. When Latinos in the military rise to leadership positions, they are more likely to be challenged on the wisdom of their decisions. Like Captain Gabriel Navarrete of the famed Company E of El Paso, Texas after the Rapido River crossing in Italy in 1944. Few Americans know that the largest number of Congressional Medals of Honor ever awarded in the history of the US armed forces, thirty-eight, have been to Latinos most of them Mexican Americans.