Why is Hispanic Heritage month important to me?

I think of Latino heroes in my life growing up and how they made something out of nothing.  I'm encouraged from people like Dr. Gil Carbajal, Dr. Lupe Salazar, Sam and Consuelo Trijillo (Consuelo's drive through), the Gallegos family who started the G&S sanitation business by mowing lawns as kids, Willie Lopez who was our first Latino City Councilman and County Commissioner, and the list goes on.  Power doesn't come from what we know, but it comes from what we need to learn.  Can we learn from our cultural history?  I think so...