ABOUT THE BOOK These are the stories of four of the thousands of American Puerto Ricans that served in the U.S. Armed forces during the Viet Nam War. They served just like many good patriotic American young men and women back in the U.S.A. Some were drafted, some volunteered. But they all had something in common. They served with honor, bravery and pride, just like their fellow Americans back in the main land. But unlike their comrades in the states, nobody ever bother to write about them. Even thou they are quote as "the best infantry men in the U.S. Army" by Al Pacino in the Academy Award winner movie, "Scent of a Woman" and Mel Gibson mentions on his movie "We Were Soldiers", that "he's got a Captain from Puerto Rico in his staff', as if that was the only Puerto Rican officer ever to serve in the U.S. armed forces, or as if Puerto Rico is a Third World independent republic, being in fact a U.S. territory, no one ever, never, had given the real importance and merits of the Puerto...

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