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Article: "Hispanic heritage"
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- La Prensa San Diego
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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As we enter Hispanic Heritage Month, let us take an opportunity to look at almost a century and a half to itemize, name and honor those Hispanics who have stepped up to the American plate and set into historical concrete that Hispanic Americans have risen above and beyond the call of duty and been awarded America's highest Medal of Valor.
Millions of Hispanic Americans have lived in the United States since it was born. Millions have served in the armed forces of the United States or fought for the country before it became a country. The Mexicans, Spanish, Cubans and Puerto Ricans who defeated a British force of 1200 at what is now St. Louis in 1779 started the two hundred thirty plus years ...