Photo prints and story permission granted by the Benavidez family. RAUL (ROY) PEREZ BENAVIDEZ An American hero Raul “Roy” Benavidez was born in 1935 near Cuero, TX to impoverished sharecroppers of Mexican and Yaqui Indian ancestry. Both parents died of tuberculosis before his eighth birthday. He and his younger brother, Roger, along with 8 cousins, …
