The Ballad of Roy Benavidez backyard homestead Ranging across history from the

Ranging across history from the distant past to the future

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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez backyard homestead Ranging across history from theThe dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Frederick Douglass) In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at least eight of his comrades that