Photo by Staff Sgt. Melisa Washington | Texas Army National Guard (Texas Military Forces) | 02.20.2016
Dignitaries from Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, gathered on the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge for the International Bridge Ceremony Feb. 20, 2016. The ceremony celebrates the bond between the United States and Mexico. The staple of the ceremony, the "abrazo," or embrace, is led by four children representing Mexico and the United States, affectionately know as the "abrazo......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Melisa Washington | Texas Army National Guard (Texas Military Forces) | 02.20.2016
Dignitaries from Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, gathered on the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge for the International Bridge Ceremony Feb. 20, 2016. The ceremony celebrates the bond between the United States and Mexico. The staple of the ceremony, the "abrazo," or embrace, is led by four children representing Mexico and the United States, affectionately know as the "abrazo......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Melisa Washington | Texas Army National Guard (Texas Military Forces) | 02.20.2016
Dignitaries from Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, gathered on Feb. 20, 2016, on the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge to exhange "abrazos," or embraces for the International Bridge Ceremony. The ceremony celebrates the bond between the United States and Mexico. Former Texas Guardsman and Laredo native, Mario Alvarado Sr. has provided sound support for the bridge ceremony for over......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Melisa Washington | Texas Army National Guard (Texas Military Forces) | 02.20.2016
Dignitaries from Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, gathered on the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge for the International Bridge Ceremony Feb. 20, 2016. The ceremony celebrates the bond between the United States and Mexico. The staple of the ceremony, the "abrazo," or embrace, is led by four children representing Mexico and the United States, affectionately know as the "abrazo......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Steven Doty | 47th Flying Training Wing | 10.23.2015
Dancers with the folkloric dance group of Ciudad Acuña entertain attendees at Brown Plaza in Del Rio, Texas on Oct. 23, 2015. The polkas, redovas, mazurkas, schottische, the waltz, and the corrido are still big favorites in Northern Mexico and Southern U.S. one hundred years after their introduction into Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Steven R. Doty)(Released)...
Photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Partlow | 47th Flying Training Wing | 10.23.2015
Col Thomas Shank, 47th Flying Training Wing commander, and Mexican Brig. Gen. Javier Aguayo Y Camargo embrace at Brown Plaza during the Abrazo Ceremony in Del Rio, Texas, Oct. 23, 2015. The Abrazo, which means to embrace in Spanish, is an annual tradition that symbolizes the friendship between Mexico and the U.S. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel D. Partlow)(Released)...
Photo by Sgt. Michael Vanpool | 36th Infantry Division (TXARNG) | 02.21.2015
Isela Flores, a senior at Martin High School in Laredo, Texas, holds the Texas state flag at parade rest during the International Bridge Ceremony in Laredo, Texas, Feb. 21. The ceremony commemorates the bonds between the United States and Mexico and features a series of abrazos, or embraces, between representatives of the two countries in the center of the bridge. (U.S. Army National Guard......
Photo by Sgt. Michael Vanpool | 36th Infantry Division (TXARNG) | 02.21.2015
John Roman Galo and Valeria Lucia Montemayor wait for their cue at the International Bridge ceremony on the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge in Laredo, Texas, Feb. 21. Galo and Montemayor were the United States' Abrazo Children for this year, and began the ceremony by abrazando, or embracing two children from Mexico. The ceremony commemorates the bonds between the United States and Mexico and features a......
