“The Last to Fall from Hero Street” tells the story of PFC John S. Muños who grew up in a boxcar home on 2nd Street (now Hero Street) in Silvis, IL. He married Mary Beserra three months before he entered the Army in January 1951. An ill-timed furlough allowed him to visit his wife and family one last time before deployment, but it also sealed his fate. He served in the Korean War and on August 27, 1951, at age 23, John was among 740 Americans killed in the Battle of Bloody Ridge. Only a block and a half long, 2nd Street in Silvis lost six young men in World War II and two in the Korean War, more than any other street in America. Hero Street has provided more than 100 service members since Mexican-American immigrants settled there in 1929.
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