The Best Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and Warfare

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“Chickie takes us hundreds of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, however by no means boring. You’ll chuckle and cry, however you’ll not be sorry that you just learn this rollicking story.”—Malachy McCourt

A wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who launched into a brave, hare-brained scheme to ship beer to his friends serving Vietnam within the late Nineteen Sixties.

One evening in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—generally known as Chick—was out with pals, ingesting in a New York Metropolis bar. The chums gathered there had misplaced family members in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves.

One neighborhood patriot got here up with an impressed—some would name it insane—thought. Somebody ought to sneak into Vietnam, observe down their buddies there, give them messages of help from again dwelling, and share a couple of laughs over a can of beer.

It might be the Best Beer Run Ever.

However who’d be loopy sufficient to do it?

One man was up for the problem—a U. S. Marine Corps veteran turned service provider mariner who wasn’t about to abandon his buddies on the entrance strains after they wanted him.

Chick volunteered.

A day later, he was on a cargo ship headed to Vietnam, armed with Irish luck and a backpack filled with alcohol. Touchdown in Qui Nho’n, Chick set off on an journey that may change his life endlessly—an odyssey that took him by way of a collection of hilarious escapades and harrowing shut calls, together with the Tet Offensive. However none of that mattered if he may convey some cheer to his friends and present them how a lot the oldsters again dwelling appreciated them.

That is the story of that epic beer run, instructed in Chick’s personal phrases and people of the lads he visited in Vietnam.