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The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea…are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

Douglas MacArthur, on Puerto Rican servicemen in the Korean conflict, quoted on a February 12, 1951 interview in Tokyo.