OMAHA — Based in the same South 24th Street storefront for over a half-century, the largest nonprofit serving the Omaha metro’s Latino community is undergoing a $10 million headquarters makeover and expansion.

The renovation of the Latino Center of the Midlands along a historic commercial corridor was kickstarted by a $2.8 million award from the State of Nebraska’s North and South Omaha Recovery Grant Program.

To stand shoulder to shoulder with my countrymen against the injustices of the world, were thoughts of a little boy who was raised to put his hand over his heart for the flag; that the differences of liberals and conservatives would be put aside for the greater good, when the time came. Was it naivety of a young boy, or did times really change?

While Mythology could be rooted in the historical past (the ancient city of Troy from the story of the “Trojan War" existed, for example, whether or not there was a human named Achilles who was dipped in a river in Hell is debatable). Those ancient stories eventually became fables; fables themselves are stories which have a moral lesson or a lesson on safety. To continue to expand on this, the reverse has become true with science-fiction.