The Weslaco Eight: Eight Teammates, One War and the Brotherhood that Endured

The Weslaco Eight is the story eight high school football teammates from Weslaco, Texas, who joined the United States Marine Corps together during World War II. Beginning with the senior football season of seven of the eight. After a school skipping incident occurred the seven seniors graduated early and were joined by one of their upperclassmen teammates. They were to be hailed throughout the Rio Grande Valley as “The Weslaco Eight.”

The book follows them through recruit training and into their service in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Each experience the war in different way and one them will be photographed in the most famous photo of World War II. However, not all of them return to their South Texas hometown after the war.

This book is a story of brotherhood through one of America’s most climatic times.