A Patriot after All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
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 World 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.\ Two bloody tours later, Ramirez survived, but at immense cost....
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An honest portrayal of a life marked forever by the Vietnam war told from the perspective of a Chicano soldier.Author of We Were Soldiers Once...And Young - Joseph L. GallowayRamirez has given us a rather unique and clear-eyed view inside the life of and times and thoughts of a young Chicano who joins the aimes and goes to Vietnam to find his destiny...Fascinating reading.
\ Joseph L. GallowayRamirez has given us a rather unique and clear-eyed view inside the life of and times and thoughts of a young Chicano who joins the aimes and goes to Vietnam to find his destiny...Fascinating reading.\ — Author of We Were Soldiers Once...And Young\ \ \ \ \ Kirkus ReviewsAn introspective memoir in which the first-time author bluntly and self-critically examines his life before, during, and after his service in Vietnam.\ \
