This paper presents a brief overview of the Vietnam War experience in Chicano Literature. To this purpose, we use the short story “Somewhere Outside Duc Pho”, written by Daniel Cano. Therefore, we will focus the ironic situation of the Chicano soldier in Vietnam who had a sense of patriotic duty to a government and a larger society, which treated them, at best, as second-class citizens. Finally, this article will show an analysis of the consequences of ethnic identity and empathic identification of the Chicano veterans with the Vietnamese people, because certain studies of the high incidence of PTSD in Chicano Vietnam veterans, and other ethnic minorities, have also found identification to be at fundamental issue.
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