Grand Forks AFB celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

231027-F-SQ068-1255 - Airmen and families participate in the Hispanic Heritage Club’s Final Fiesta at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Oct. 27, 2023. The event was organized as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated annually from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. This year’s NHHM theme was ‘Todos Somos, Somos Uno,’ which translates to ‘We are All, We are One.’ (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anthony Nunez-Pellicer)

Grand Forks AFB celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

231027-F-SQ068-1218 – Airmen and their families share a meal and celebrate during the Hispanic Heritage Club’s Final Fiesta at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Oct. 27, 2023. The event was organized to celebrate the end of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and honor the 2023 theme of 'Todos Somos, Somos Uno,' which translates to ‘We are All, We are One.’ (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anthony Nunez-Pellicer)

Grand Forks AFB celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

231027-F-SQ068-1193 – Staff Sgt. Humberto Stripling and Staff Sgt. Lillian Griffith, event participants, paint skulls, flowers and other symbols of Hispanic culture, for the Hispanic Heritage club’s Final Fiesta at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Oct. 27, 2023. Hispanic holidays often feature painting as an activity to bring family members together through the act of creating something beautiful. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anthony Nunez-Pellicer)

Grand Forks AFB celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

231027-F-SQ068-1203 - Decorations featuring a sugar skull and other icons of Hispanic culture are on display for the Hispanic Heritage Club’s Final Fiesta at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Oct. 27, 2023. Sugar skulls represent departed loved ones in Hispanic culture, and are usually placed on an altar or even a gravestone as an offering to the spirit of the dead. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anthony Nunez-Pellicer)

Grand Forks AFB celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

231027-F-SQ068-1017 – Children look at decorations featuring symbols associated with Dia De Los Muertos, translated to Day of the Dead, that are laid out for the Hispanic Heritage Club’s Final Fiesta at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Oct. 27, 2023. A common misconception about Dia De Los Muertos is that the holiday is a Mexican version of the American holiday Halloween. Day of the Dead shares traditions with Halloween including the wearing of costumes and parades but is a unique celebration of life and death where families honor their loved ones who have passed. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anthony Nunez-Pellicer)

Grand Forks AFB celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

Published Nov. 3, 2023
By Airman 1st Class Anthony Nunez-Pellicer
319th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs

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