IT HURTS: Telemundo Anchor´s Heartfelt Message to Gold Star Mother

Kathleen Krumhansl | September 1, 2021
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LOIZAGA: Could you describe the moment when your son said to you: “Mom, I want to be part of the armed forces (of the United States)”? What did you feel when your son told you of his desire to be a member of our armed forces?

BRISEÑO: When he was in high school I told him that he was going down the wrong path, and I always encouraged him to join the U.S. armed forces, and he would say to me: “Do you want me to die? To get killed? And I´d say, “no, I know you´re going to do good.” So he´d always say no. But one day he came back from school, he was just about to graduate, and he said, “Mom, do you have something to do at 4?” And I said, “no”. And he said, “can you come to an appointment with me?” And I said, “What kind of an appointment? What are we going to do? And he said, “I enlisted in the United States Marines, and since I am a minor, they´re asking you to sign and can you come? I thought about it. I thought about it, and then I said, this is what I asked him (to do) – this was it.” And he said, “Mom, I want you to be proud of me”.

LOIZAGA: Ms. Coral Briseño, you are proud of your son but so are we. We are obviously grateful for Humberto Sánchez ´sacrifice. We will honor him here. Thank you for your time and we grieve with you. We´ll be back with more after the break.

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