Arthur Guerrero's guest appearances

Arthur Guerrero

Veterans History Project

Gary Sinise

Chuck Hagel

Peter Young

Paul Alexander

Roger Dean

Rhonda Cornum

Julia M. Grabner Haskell

Marion Anna Steinhilber

James Dorris

Donald Patrick Finn

Cookie Avvampato

Norman Ikari

Max Cleland

Bertran Wallace

Larry Schwab

OwlTail

Arthur Guerrero arrived in Vietnam in September 1966, and on his first mission in the field, he saw the man next to him killed and others around him wounded. He escaped injury that time, but he wasn’t so fortunate seven months later. Horribly wounded and piled into a helicopter like a piece of wood with corpses and other wounded, Guerrero hung on to life and underwent extensive rehabilitation. "I never thought of myself as being courageous but self-sustaining," he told an interviewer many years later. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ten years after his wounding, and from his wheelchair, he has been fighting another battle, this one for the rights of veterans to the best medical care possible.