From Yellow Footprints to Parade Deck: My Marine Corps Boot Camp, 1965
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Historian Alex Fabros Jr. recalls his journey from farm work to US Marine boot camp.
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Striking in Delano, Getting Drafted By Uncle Sam
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Fil-Am historian, farm worker, Marine Alex Fabros Jr. recalls the beginning of the famous grape strike in Delano, California before he was drafted for the Vietnam War.
Read MoreHarvesting Grape in Coachella, Weekends in L.A.
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Historian, soldier, farm worker Alex Fabros Jr. recalls weekdays of grape harvesting in the desert heat and weekends of romance in the big city.
Read MoreA Tribute to Our Manongs and Manangs
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This poem was written by Alex S. Fabros Jr., a retired Philippine American Military History professor who was one of our honorees in last year's tribute to manongs and manangs.
Read MoreCutting Asparagus in Gonzales, California — Spring 1965
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Farmworker-Soldier-Historian Alex Fabros, Jr. shares the second part of his Filipino American memoir.
Read MoreWinter in the Imperial Valley: Lettuce Season, 1965
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Farmworker-Soldier-Historian Alex Fabros, Jr. shares the first part of his Filipino American memoir.
Read MoreNinoy Is Dead, 1983
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A fraternity brother of the late Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. recalls the impact of the latter’s political assassination on his life as a graduate student/journalist in the US.
Read MoreHow Chuck Mangione Helped Filipino Street Children
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Jazz pop great Chuck Mangione, who died last July played a role in the birth of Philippine International Aid, which helps send street children to school.
Read MoreKulintang in Den Hohen Alpen
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When kulintang musicians brought the spirits of their instruments to welcoming Switzerland.
Read MoreHow Vietnam War Vets Wrestled with the Shadows of the Toxic Orange Mist
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A Filipino American veteran of the U.S. war in Vietnam recounts the illnesses he has suffered from exposure to the toxic chemical weapon Agent Orange and his peers’ long fight for recognition and redress.
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