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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Hardcover)
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Hardcover)
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"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced
with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will
not be sorry that you read this rollicking story."-Malachy McCourt
Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter
Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book-a wildly
entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and
former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained
scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late
1960s. One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue-known as
Chick-was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The
friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they
watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One
neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired-some would call it
insane-idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their
buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and
share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest
Beer Run Ever. But who'd be crazy enough to do it? One man was up
for the challenge-a U. S. Marine Corps veteran turned merchant
mariner who wasn't about to desert his buddies on the front lines
when they needed him. Chick volunteered. A day later, he was on a
cargo ship headed to Vietnam, armed with Irish luck and a backpack
full of alcohol. Landing in Qui Nho'n, Chick set off on an
adventure that would change his life forever-an odyssey that took
him through a series of hilarious escapades and harrowing close
calls, including the Tet Offensive. But none of that mattered if he
could bring some cheer to his pals and show them how much the folks
back home appreciated them. This is the story of that epic beer
run, told in Chick's own words and those of the men he visited in
Vietnam.
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