#borinqueneers

Image description: Four Puerto Rican Korean War veterans pose with their arms around each other and smile. Three of the men are wearing green Army dress uniforms with medals and decorations. The fourth man is dressed casually with a folded blue military cap.

Borinqueneers 🇵🇷💪🏼 The 65th Infantry Regiment was created in 1899 by the U.S. Congress as a segregated unit composed primarily of Puerto Ricans with mostly continental officers. It went on to serve meritoriously in three wars: World War I, World War II and the Korean War. The unit was nicknamed after “Borinquen”, the word given to Puerto Rico by its original inhabitants, the Taino Indians, meaning “land of the brave lord”. When they were finally called to the front lines in the Korean War, the men of the 65th performed impressively, earning praise from General MacArthur. They performed a critical role containing the Chinese advance and supporting the U.S. Marines in the aftermath of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Sent to every corner of the peninsula, they showed outstanding resilience and a legendary fierceness as combatants, even as they faced discrimination within the Army. Puerto Ricans occupy a special place in the history of the U.S. Army. Because of the island’s commonwealth status, they don’t have the right to vote in U.S. elections, and yet they serve in the military and can be drafted. For many of the veterans of the 65th, this paradox became an incentive to be even more patriotic, to prove themselves in battle 200%. #borinqueneers #borinqueneers65thinfantryregiment #borinqueneers🇵🇷 #puertorico #borinquen #memorialday #courage #bravery #valentía #honor #resilience #diadelarecordacion #resiliencia @puertoricanflagsup - #regrann #PrFlagsUp #puertoricanflagsup https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnKkN0JVp0/?igshid=s4gowrmt2twy

Hoy en lunes de Excelencia, Esperanza y Echar Pa’lante nos desviamos del tema tradicional de buscar empleo, para reconocer a nuestros hermanos puertorriqueños que han servido de una forma u otra en las Fuerzas Armadas. Para nosotros aquí en PR City todos ellos son “Borinqueneers”, os saludos en su día, y les decimos GRACIAS!! Recuerda seguirnos en FB, Instagram y Twitter!! #memorialdayweekend #memorialday #borinqueneers #thanks #boricuasbelike #boricuas #boricua #proud #honor #puertorico #city #puertorico-city #puertorico_city #anewkindofcity https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx-v1olBdSL/?igshid=dpiy8avn2st5

Reposted from @mylgara - Borinqueneers 🇵🇷💪🏼 The 65th Infantry Regiment was created in 1899 by the U.S. Congress as a segregated unit composed primarily of Puerto Ricans with mostly continental officers. It went on to serve meritoriously in three wars: World War I, World War II and the Korean War. The unit was nicknamed after “Borinquen”, the word given to Puerto Rico by its original inhabitants, the Taino Indians, meaning “land of the brave lord”. When they were finally called to the front lines in the Korean War, the men of the 65th performed impressively, earning praise from General MacArthur. They performed a critical role containing the Chinese advance and supporting the U.S. Marines in the aftermath of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Sent to every corner of the peninsula, they showed outstanding resilience and a legendary fierceness as combatants, even as they faced discrimination within the Army. Puerto Ricans occupy a special place in the history of the U.S. Army. Because of the island’s commonwealth status, they don’t have the right to vote in U.S. elections, and yet they serve in the military and can be drafted. For many of the veterans of the 65th, this paradox became an incentive to be even more patriotic, to prove themselves in battle 200%. #borinqueneers #borinqueneers65thinfantryregiment #borinqueneers🇵🇷 #puertorico #borinquen #memorialday #courage #bravery #valentía #honor #resilience #diadelarecordacion #resiliencia @puertoricanflagsup - #regrann #PrFlagsUp #puertoricanflagsup https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx-smp-JnkR/?igshid=19zdl5rsk9nw5

Today we honor the #Borinqueneers. The 65th Infantry is a Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army that bravely fought and served the U.S. during times of combat, including World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. For its extraordinary service to the nation in the Korean War, the Regiment earned one Medal of Honor, nine Distinguished Service Crosses, approximately 250 Silver Stars, over 600 Bronze Stars, and more than 2,700 Purple Hearts. #LaBorinqueña (at Irvington, New Jersey)

On this #MemorialDay, I’d like to share a bit of history about The #Borinqueneers, a regiment of soldiers from Puerto Rico which fought in every U.S. war from World War I through the Korean War. 💙❤️💙❤️ The Borinqueneers were the last of the segregated regiments of the U.S. Army to be honored by a Congressional Medal. The unit, which has a history reaching back to 1899, has received many other honors, for specific units and individual soldiers, but the Congressional Medal required an extensive grassroots movement. 💙❤️💙❤️ Even before the reorganization of the Puerto Rican Regiment of Volunteer Infantry into the 65th Infantry Regiment in 1920, Puerto Rico supported the military efforts of the U.S.A. Puerto Rican volunteers fought against the British in the Civil War as part of Spain’s support of the American colonies, soldiers from Puerto Rico fought in the Civil War, and The first shots fired on behalf of the U.S. in World War I were ordered by Lt. Teofilo Marxuach, based at El Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From the earliest connections between the United States mainland and Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico has provided soldiers, doctors, and support staff for the U.S. military at a rate higher than those of many of the States. 💙❤️💙❤️ I have recently seen in the news politicians who don’t think Puerto Ricans should vote in Florida elections and a couple denied services for having a driver’s license from PR which they deemed foreign and therefore invalid. 👉🏼PLEASE SHARE👈🏼this and remind those who still haven’t realized Puerto Ricans are American citizens that our brothers and sisters have shed their blood for this country. 🇵🇷🇺🇸 . . . . #puertorico #usa #memorialday #puertoricansinthemilitary #veterans #65thinfantry #WWI #WWII #NorthKoreanWar (at United States)