20 "Dos Recuerdos"

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. Aztlan and Viet Nam 1
5. Part 1 / STANDING AT THE WALL
6. Introduction 15
7. 1 "Corrido del padre de un soldado" 49
8. 2 "My Uncle Sam" and "Sea of Freedom" 51
9. 3 "Las cartas de Martin Flores" 53
10. 4 "Dragon Mountain" 63
11. 5 From The Oddsplayer 72
12. 6 "Lonely Vietnam" 80
13. 7 From Interrogations 81
14. 8 "Somewhere Outside Due Pho" 84
15. 9 From Shifting Loyalties 97
16. 10 From A Mexican in Vietnam 106
17. 11 From Medal of Honor: A Vietnam Warrior's Story 110
18. 12 From Chained Eagle 126
19. 13 "Unfinished Letter to Terry" 133
20. 14 "En memoria de Arturo Tijerina" and "Get It On" 139
21. 15 From "History of a Chicano Vietnam Veteran" 143
22. 16 From Soldados: Chícanos in Viet Nam 145
23. 17 From Dogsfrom Illusion 156
24. 18 "Party on the Mountain" 159
25. 19 From "The Tortilla Mission" 165
26. 20 "Dos Recuerdos" 168
27. 21 "I Just Got Back from Vietnam, Baby" 170
28. 22 "El entierro" 174
29. 23 "Death in Vietnam" 176
30. 24 From Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera 177
31. 25 "Untitled" 179
32. 26 "La siembra," and from "Los Corts" 180
33. 27 '"Too many targets, too high a body count'" 183
34. Part 2 / _¡RAZA SÍ, GUERRA NO!
35. Introduction 187
36. 28 "Viet Nam Veteran" 215
37. 29 "Speech Refusing Induction" 217
38. 30 "Corrido de la guerra" 219
39. 31 "Rocket Flight" 222
40. 32 "Little Girls" 224
41. 33 "Hearts on Fire" and "Heroes" 225
42. 34 "The Summer of Vietnam" 227
43. 35 "My Cousin Ralph" 229
44. 36 From "Pensamiento serpentino" 230
45. 37 "Cinco poemas" 232
46. 38 "Blessed Amerika" 236
47. 39 "Juan Carlos González" 238
48. 40 "Poema" 240
49. 41 "A Question Every Chicano Should Ask" 242
50. 42 "Carnal in Vietnam" 244
51. 43 "Vietnam: Gabacho's War" 246
52. 44 "La hora de todos" 247
53. 45 "Chicano Moratorium, December 20, 1969" 248
54. 46 "La niña Lina en East Los Angeles" 249
55. 47 "Chicano Is an Act of Defiance" 251
56. 48 "Eulogy for Rubén Salazar" 253
57. 49 "Overkill at the Silver Dollar" 255
58. 50 "A Walk in the Sun" 262
59. 51 "Chicano Moratorium" 264
60. 52 "Song to a Thousand Faces/My People in the Streets" 268
61. 53 "Due Process of Law" 269
62. 54 From Assault with a Deadly Weapon 271
63. 55 From Always Running: La vida loca, Gang Days in L.A. 272
64. 56 From Delia's Song 276
65. 57 "Young Chicano's Death Described" (on Moratorium of January 30, 1971) 278
66. 58 "The Vietnam Wall" 280
67. 59 "America's Wailing Wall" 282
68. 60 "Enemy Way" 286
69. 61 "Chale Guerra" 293
70. 62 "A time to raise questions" 295
71. Epilogue: Treinta años después (Thirty years later) 297
72. Notes 303
73. Sources 321