U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Alicia “Alice” Contreras, center, 7th Bomb Wing paralegal, with her siblings while she was in the second grade. During her early elementary years, Contreras and her siblings had to regularly get ready for school at 3 a.m. so they could take an array of buses to continue to attend school in the U.S. after her family was forced to move to Mexico following her mother’s divorce. (Courtesy photo)