Perla was born and raised in Orange County, went to UC Berkeley for her Bachelors, and worked in Bakersfield for her first job as a multimedia journalist.
SAN DIEGO — Retired Marine Louie Martinez still has a few things from serving in Vietnam in 1966. Letters, pictures, and two purple hearts earned from a serious arm injury and concussion. What’s not as visible is his PTSD and Parkinson's caused by chemicals used in warfare. Those also lasted through the decades.At the age of 18, Martinez says he led search and destroy missions, and often checked for bombs on local roads. Those operations gave him multiple near-death experiences.
Martinez says after the war he was elated to return home to San Diego, but the welcome wasn't so warm.
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