I should point out that Isaac Camacho is the namesake of the Special Forces Association - Chapter IX, El Paso.You can read more about him on their website at http://www.sfa9.org/.
You need harbor no doubts that he's a man worth reading about.
I got an e-mail a couple days back from none other than Billy Waugh.Billy is one of those honest-to-God no-shit genuine larger than life types that most of us only get to read about.
Billy's the guy that wrote Hunting the Jackal ; you know, the one with the forward he wrote on his seventieth birthday on the side of a mountain hunting Muj in Afghanistan. Anyway, Billy's writing a new book. I'll let him tell you about it...
"In the meantime I would invite you and your friends to visit the world-wide-web, at the address shown below, to view the Home Page for
the book I am just finishing up, concerning Isaac Camacho, a Mexican-Indian from El Paso, TX, who was captured in Nov 1963, marched across the Plain of the Reeds in South Vietnam, into Cambodia, back into South Vietnam, then north into Cambodia, over a period of 27 days.The book covers his interment in the border area of Cambodia/Vietnam, where he, and three other Special Forces men, were chained and caged for a period of 21 months, before Isaac Camacho managed to escape his cage, and make his way to freedom, with the North Vietnamese and a dog searching team, very close on his tail.
If you go to the web-site, then scroll down to the buttons, you will see some of the sketches, maps, photographs, and documents, which will be available to the reader, as the book is read. A new idea I came up with, which seems to be working pretty well. I don't expect the book to be out until June of this coming year 2009."
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