
Staring Down the German High-Command The Incredible Story of Lt. Hector Mendietta
‘’….They all came out like robots, staring straight ahead. Only Goehring was in uniform and he was in his dress-whites. No one made eye-contact with us, they all knew, they all had to know….the grim faces they made out of innocent people was on their conscience.’’ How often do you get to run into a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam? I met World War II hero Lt. Hector Mendieta on the 8th of August, 2015. I had been involved in a fender-bender and was at the collision center