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Stories with interview subjects from our Vietnam collection. Browse all stories to see subjects across all Voces collections.

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Subject	Collection	Story	Interviewed by
Felipe Ramirez III	Vietnam	By Voces Staff A bullet in his chest and scars on his stomach were lifelong reminders of Felipe Ramirez's Vietnam War experience. "The first round of bullets hit the machine gun. Before I knew it, I was hit. I felt something. I took... Read More	Desiree T. Hernandez
John Reyes	Vietnam	By Julie Rene Tran The deep scar on his right arm, a slash made by a Viet Cong fighter’s knife, became barely visible. His eyebrows grew back and missing flesh on his calves, vestiges of a mortar attack, filled in. The upper lip, the one... Read More	Julie Rene Tran
Rolando L. Rios	Vietnam, Political & Civic Engagement	By Jess Brown It was the summer of 1952. Leo Rios, a cab driver, was shot dead by a passenger he had just picked up on the streets of San Antonio, Texas. His wife, Teresa Hernandez, was left with a broken heart to nurse and three daughters... Read More	Jessica Brown
Alonzo Robert Rivera	Vietnam	By Ali Vise Catching a midnight train in Fresno, Calif., Alonzo R. Rivera Jr., watched his mother, draped with a blanket, crying as she said goodbye. At that moment, the work of his childhood harvesting grapes and cotton became a thing of... Read More	Olivia Puentes-Reynolds
Benjamin "Ben" S. Rivera	Vietnam	By Blake Barber, California State University, Fullerton Looking back on his experience while serving with the U.S. Marines in Vietnam, Ben Rivera evoked three years full of uncertainty about making it home, but also friendships that... Read More	Taylor Peterson
Ramon Rodriguez	Vietnam	By Zachary Romo, California State University, Fullerton Standing in front of a judge, Ramon Rodriguez was given two options when he was 17: Go to jail or join the military. With his father’s approval, he chose to serve. As a... Read More	Frank Trejo
Fernando & Mrs. Gloria Rodriguez	Vietnam	By Joseph Muller Unlike many U.S. military veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, Fernando Rodriguez did not see a Vietnamese battlefield, even though he volunteered to fight more than once. The closest that the... Read More	Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Nestor Rodriguez	Vietnam	By Ben Wermund In the spring of 1968, Nestor Rodriguez was desperate to get out of his hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. Facing social pressure after a broken engagement, the usually straight-A student was failing his fourth semester... Read More	Ben Wermund
Ben R. Saenz	Vietnam	By Gilbert Song Bernardino "Ben" Saenz Jr. arrived in Vietnam to the sound of sirens and pitch black darkness in May 1969, just five months after he was drafted. The smell was terrible, he recalled. "I knew I was in the real stuff... Read More	Gilbert Song
Placido Salazar $November 23, 1956. Placido at the Barracks at FE Warren AFB, WYO.\Just a rare moment relaxing.\""$	Vietnam	By Lena Price Placido Salazar had a choice. He could have gone to the bunker, where he would have been relatively safe from the mortar attack raging outside his base in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, in 1965. Or he could attempt to... Read More	Lena Price
Hector Sanchez	Vietnam	By Lindsey Craun When 18-year-old Hector Sanchez learned he had been drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in Vietnam just three months after his high school graduation, he knew that he had to face the reality, look forward to the... Read More	Liliana Rodriguez
Juan Modesto Sanchez-Acevedo	Vietnam	By Melissa Macaya One of the most vivid memories of the Vietnam War for Modesto Sanchez occurred moments before he boarded the ship that would take him to war and change his life forever. “President Lyndon B. Johnson... Read More	Manuel G. Aviles-Santiago
Raymond "Ray" Saucedo	Vietnam	By Jackie Rapp If growing up in a family with 11 brothers and one sister doesn’t sound hectic enough, Raymond "Ray" Saucedo’s family also didn’t just stay in one location. Saucedo's childhood consisted of summers when the family... Read More	Jackie Rapp
Jose M. Soto	Vietnam	By Iris Zubair Although he had big dreams of a career playing football, Jose Mariano Soto, a young Mexican-American college student living in Laredo, Texas during the 1960s, volunteered for the Marine Corps to avoid getting drafted... Read More	Liliana Rodriguez
Henry Soza	Vietnam	By Jonathan Woo The horrors of the Vietnam War remained so etched in his mind that for decades, Henry Soza Jr., continued to be haunted by what he had seen and heard. As a U.S. Army Combat Medic supporting Troop B, 5th Squadron, 7th... Read More	Taylor Peterson
Ernesto Torres $Ernesto Torres at the Lane Air Field Base in front of his barracks (Hooch) in April 1971.\Holding my M16 rifle.\""$	Vietnam	By Grant Abston After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver in 1969, Ernesto Torres developed a hobby -- racing cars. Torres, who registered for the draft after graduation, had trouble finding steady work after... Read More	Ricardo LaFore
Robert Lee Urioste	Korean Conflict, Vietnam	Read More	Ricardo LaFore
David Valladolid	Vietnam	By Kassandra Balli After almost getting his eyes blown out of his head by a mine in Vietnam, David Valladolid was hospitalized for three months. He lay flat in a bed in a hospital in Saigon for 30 days; doctors feared that if he moved and... Read More	Henry Mendoza
Joseph F. Velasquez	Vietnam	By Kristina Beverly, Cal State Fullerton When Joseph Velasquez joined the U.S. Navy on April 23, 1968, he received a card that asked where he would want to go if he were deployed. He could have picked anywhere, but he wanted to be... Read More	Liliana Rodriguez
José Luis "Louis" Villalobos Jr.	Vietnam	By the Voces Staff Louis Villalobos Jr., a senior in high school, weighed his options. He didn't have the money to go to college. He could wait to be drafted to serve in the Vietnam War, or he could enlist and hope to be assigned somewhere... Read More	Liliana Rodriguez
Neftali L. Zendejas	Korean Conflict, Vietnam	By Layne Victoria Lynch As 80-year-old Neftali L. Zendejas looked back on the memories of his childhood before his service in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, he reminisced about how he knew he wanted to work with aircrafts at an early... Read More	Raquel C. Garza