Video | Our Soldiers, Our Lady of Guadalupe | Chicago Stories

This is the story of pride and heartbreak in a close-knit South Side community. Our Lady of Guadalupe, Chicago’s first and oldest Mexican-American parish, lost 12 young men in the Vietnam War during a brutal five-year period.

Joe Cervantez remembers his brother, Edward “Eddy” Cervantez, a White Sox Bat Boy and a Vietnam Soldier who was killed in action.

Our Lady of Guadalupe was the first Mexican American church in Chicago and a spiritual and cultural center for the South Chicago community.

Our Lady of Guadalupe parish remembers the 12 young men who died in the in the Vietnam War.