"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."
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Douglas MacArthur, quoted on 12 February 1951 in Tokyo, Japan
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