In 2012, George Garcia sat down to be interviewed about his experiences as a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Alternating between English and Spanish, Garcia told of early life in Brownsville, Texas, his time as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam, and his experience coming home from the war. Will you find similarities with a soldier's experiences in the Iraqi War? Source One: George M. Garcia, Vietnam Veteran, Oral Interview (1969/2012) George M. Garcia: "When I first arrived, I arrived in Da Nang. And I'll never forgot because I was only 18 years young. I was you know, I was freshly out of high school. And at that time I have to tell you this so you can have a picture of it because it wasn't just cut and dry. Like I told you, coming from the [Rio Grande] Valley, especially for me that I had never been exposed to anything like this... 1 in our particular company, which was Company F, you know, we were always in mission. ... And from that day forward - I arrived there January 3rd of 196