Rio Grande City, TX (KRGV) — Rio Grande City residents honored two brothers who died in World War II during a Veterans Day event 80 years after the war ended.

Ernesto Canales and Arcadio Canales rest at the Rio Grande City County Cemetery.

"We made it a point to get together and honor our uncles," Rio Grande City resident Diana Andrade Pena said.

The Canales brothers are Andrade Pena's great uncles, and a street in Rio Grande City now carries their name. As a grandmother herself, Andrade Pena said she can feel the pain her grandmother lived with after losing them.

"We're trying to get our children to understand and to realize what my grandparents went through. So my sister brings her daughter; we have our nieces involved, those that live here," Andrade Pena said.

On Veterans Day, the Henry Clay Davis VFW Post brought together students, veterans, and the Florence J. Scott Woman's Club to remember all veterans, especially those who never made it home.

Andrade Pena said she does not want her great-uncles' sacrifice to be forgotten. She said she hopes future generations remember the cost of war.

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