War has a way of creating legends, but a few stories of heroism rival the greatest fiction. In the heart of the Vietnam War, wounded, outnumbered, and facing impossible odds, one man, Roy Benavidez, ...

Sturkey's book, "The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most Famous Hispanic War Hero," published in ... the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam when a 12-man reconnaissance ...

Roy P. Benavidez was a teddy bear ... he was an Army Green Beret legend who was shot and wounded 37 times in a 1968 Vietnam War battle where he saved the lives of at least eight soldiers.