A Patriot After All the Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
Description:
Juan Ramirez always believed he would die in Vietnam. As a teenager growing up in the San Francisco area in the early 1960s, 'Nam was there, just over the horizon, like the distant thump of artillery. His father and uncles had served in Worm War II, another uncle in Korea. Numerous cousins had enlisted. At nineteen, Ramirez decided to embrace the war. In 1968, the year of the Tet offensive, Ramirez joined the U.S. marines.
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Two bloody tours later, Ramirez survived, but at immense cost. Twice wounded, undesirably discharged, and plagued by survivor's guilt, Ramirez surveys the toll of Vietnam on flesh and spirit in this captivating memoir.
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