Isaac Camacho: First American to escape Viet Cong writes memoirs
El Paso hero Isaac Camacho: First American to escape Viet Cong writes memoirs, by Ramón Rentería. El Paso Times, 4 May 2010.
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At 72, Camacho, a retired Army captain and retired El Paso postal service worker, has published "Isaac Camacho: An American Hero."
The memoir describes his work detail, a bout with malaria, his mostly rice diet and constant execution threats as a prisoner of the Viet Cong. He was caged in a bamboo hut, shackled in the jungle for 21 months.
