Who Is Telesforo Trinidad?
In honor a Memorial Day in the U.S., I want to tell you about a Filipino hero who has made history not once, but twice.
Telesforo Trinidad is the only Filipino in the U.S. Navy to have earned the Medal of Honor for diving into a fire TWICE to save his fellow sailors.
Now he is being honored as the first Filipino to have a U.S. Navy Destroyer Battleship named after him.
In today’s video, I’m excited to tell you all about Telesforo, why he’s important to Filipino-American history, and how Filipinos have been integral to the U.S. military in important (and complex) ways.