Nobody Knows How Many Mexican-Americans Served In Vietnam. A New Play Tells Their Story

Tomás Sandoval, Sr. (bottom right) served in Vietnam. He stars in the play, "Ring of Red: A Barrio Story," which was written by his son, Tomás Summers Sandoval.

“Ring of Red: A Barrio Story” relies on oral histories to tell the rarely heard stories of Mexican-American veterans. It’s hard to quantify how many Latinos served in the military during the Vietnam War, because the Pentagon didn’t officially keep count. Latino members of the U.S. military were lumped together with white troops in official […]