What it really is a story about is about a community went from being a second-class community in every way to participating in the war and coming back understanding they were just as much Americans as anyone else.

A whole community starts on that road to fully realizing its own American citizenship or its rights as full-fledged Americans. In that sense they really are the catalysts for the (Latino) civil rights movement.

I want them to learn about community in my class, and I want them to believe in themselves. I want them to learn the value of volunteer work and that they can make a difference.

These guys have worked real hard to be here. To represent our community like this, being the last (Class 4A) team left in the city, we want to represent the whole city.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

What has happened in our community is very unfortunate. We have created two communities: a middle class, and the ones who are poor.