"I accept the responsibility for advocating for those who can’t, because I’ve already paid the price, and I have that right." (Video Interview, 1:08:26)

Arthur Lee Guerrero

Arthur Guerrero [2008] War: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Branch: Army Unit: Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP), 191st Military Intelligence Detachment, 1st Cavalry Division Service Location: Fort Polk, Louisiana; An Khe, Happy Valley, and Bon Son, Vietnam Rank: E-5 Place of Birth: Denver, CO

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.