Providence High graduate headed to Air Force Academy
The sky’s the limit for Providence High graduate headed to Air Force Academy
For Thalia Cintron, a trip last summer to the 9/11 Museum in New York sealed the deal.
Growing up in Atwater Village in Los Angeles, her single mother, Jennifer Leyva, and other relatives always told her to thank military service members when she encountered them.
When Thalia was 12, a close cousin joined the U.S. Army.
“I thought, ‘I can do that, too,’ ” she recalled.
So when Cintron saw the 56-foot-long bronze memorial to firefighters who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the motto inscribed on it really hit home: “Dedicated to those who fell, and those who carry on.”