About The Author
Pablo Jacobo
Pablo grew up under the vast California sky, spending his childhood summers laboring in the heat and dust of the Fairfield-Green Valley and Napa Valley picking fruit shoulder to shoulder with his six siblings. The land shaped his calloused hands, taught him the rhythm of early mornings and hard work. At nineteen, everything changed. During the Vietnam War, the Army drafted him, pulling him from the rows of grapes and peaches he knew by heart and thrusting him into the new world, training him not to harvest but to help heal as a combat medic. Fueled by that spark, after his honorable discharge from the Army, he traded his Army uniform for textbooks. He soon earned a BS in human biology then his doctorate of dental surgery from the University of California San Francisco.
Pablo went from working the farm fields to wearing the U.S. Army uniform, and that journey changed him and inspired him as well. In Warriors Without Borders, he writes about many young men like himself–farmworkers who put their lives on the line for a country that rarely treated them as equals. These aren’t just old war stories. They’re living proof of courage and sacrifice from the people America often looked past. Pablo wrote this book so their stories wouldn’t disappear and help keep their legacy alive.
