GSS Alum John "Chick" Donohue on THE TODAY SHOW!

As part of our Honoring Our Military series ahead of Veteran’s Day Wednesday, NBC’s Kerry Sanders joins TODAY from Fort Lauderdale, Florida with Chickie Donohue, a Marine veteran who tells the extraordinary story of how he snuck into war-torn Vietnam in 1967 to deliver beer to his buddies. View on the TODAY show page here.

You can purchase his book  The Greatest Beer Run Ever  here on Amazon! The book is soon-to-be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly who won two Academy Awards for  Green Book.

Chickie's story has also been featured in the The New York Times, NY Post, and The Hollywood Reporter.

 

A little background on the book:

The Greatest Beer Run Ever, the memoir by John "Chickie" Donohue, '56, is soon-to-be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book.

The story begins at a gathering of friends in a bar in Inwood. The friends who 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 a wild idea and a challenge.

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.

Chickie accepted this challenge, and the story tells the rest.

This story of our neighborhood is told in the book, and soon-to-be motion picture. We are proud to share this story with our community!
 

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