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title	:	A Patriot After All : The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
author	:	Ramirez, Juan.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826319580
print isbn13	:	9780826319586
ebook isbn13	:	9780585200965
language	:	English
subject	Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Participation, Mexican American, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American, Ramirez, Juan,--1949- , Mexican American families--United States, Mexican American soldiers--Vietnam.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	DS559.8.M39R36 1999eb
ddc	:	959.704/3372
subject	:	Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Participation, Mexican American, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American, Ramirez, Juan,--1949- , Mexican American families--United States, Mexican American soldiers--Vietnam.

Page iii A Patriot After All The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet Juan Ramirez University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv 1999 by University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First edition The following authors generously have granted permission to reprint their poems: Jan Barry for "The Longest War" and Frank A. Cross, Jr., for "Thoughts of an Infantryman Observing the Body of an NVA Soldier," both poems originally published in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, edited by Larry Rottman, Jan Barry, and Basil T. Paquet, copyright 1972 by 1st Casualty Press; W. D. Erhart for "The One That Died,'' originally published in To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired: New & Selected Poems, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1984; Renny Christopher for "Viet Nam And California," "Combat," "Viet Nam and El Salvador, and on and on forever ...," and "'There is no boot camp for Viet Nam vets' wives'," from Viet Nam and California, Vietnam Generation Inc. and Burning Cities Press, 1998. Some names have been changed to protect the identities of some people in this book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ramirez, Juan, 1949 A patriot after all : the story of a Chicano Vietnam vet / Juan Ramirez. 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1958-0 (cloth). ISBN 0-8263-1959-9 (pbk.) 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975 Participation, Mexican American. 2. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975 Personal narratives, American. 3. Ramirez, Juan, 1949- . 4. Mexican American families United States. 5. Mexican American soldiers Vietnam. I. Title. DS559.8.M39R36 1999 959.704'3372 dc21 98-46679 CIP

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii A Dedication ix Part I Before Chapter 1 Family 3 Chapter 2 Boot Camp 27 Part II During Chapter 3 War Stories 41 Chapter 4 Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, January 1969 49 Chapter 5 Ambushed 59 Chapter 6 3/3 69 Chapter 7 Christmas, 1969 88 Chapter 8 Second Tour 97 Part III After Chapter 9 Back in the World, 1971 129 Chapter 10 Road Home 152 Epilogue 178

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS When I first wrote this book in 1986, I did not do it intending to write a book. It started out as an undergraduate senior thesis with my personal experiences in Vietnam as its core and took approximately six months of full-time work to finish. The opportunity to turn my thesis into a published book came through a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Cruz named Renny Christopher, back in 1992, when she asked to use a small excerpt from my manuscript in her dissertation. She has since received her doctorate in American literature and has had her dissertation published by the University of Massachusetts Press, and she has published a book of poetry as well. Without Renny's interest in and use of my work, I would not have been motivated to return to the manuscript for revisions and additions to make it into the book it now is. I must also say that if I had not had Renny's support, encouragement, and mentorship over the last two years, I could not have finished it. She gave me countless hours of her scarce time. She gave me and my work the kind of devotion that she gives every day in her classrooms. She is the kind of teacher that all

Page viii students should get to experience at least once in their school careers. She is the best example of what a teacher should be. To have had her help with the final editing was in itself a gift of time and energy I will forever cherish because I was totally lost as to how and where to start. Thank you, Renny you're a very special human being. I am also very grateful to all my family who helped with their time, support, and love, in particular my wife, Linda, and my sister-in-law, Cathy, who both typed and typed, enduring my awful longhand for the last two years. A very special thank-you to my youngest brother, Paco, who has loved me and been my biggest fan in life no matter what I've done.

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