Joe S. Castro was born in 1921, the next-to-youngest born into this large Castro family of Austin, Texas that would send four sons off to war. His younger brother, also wounded in action, was our late Patriot, L.C. Castro (chapter charter member and our first chaplain), featured in the PATRIOT BULLETIN with a story similar to this in the August 1997 issue and that may also be found on our website. We are overdue for saying more about Joe and L.C.’s family, and will make up for that here. Parents Ladislao and Leonarda Castro had come from Mexico during World War I. They had two daughters and three sons when they arrived in Austin, making their first home here in a downtown...
