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kin wrote

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Can you explain your comment? I know about japanese camps in WW2 but Puerto Rico and Nam?

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granite wrote

ELI5 type shit? So back in the day. When P.R. residents decided to fight for the good ol U S of A as sort of a "thank you" obligatory we will stand by you act. Like many ethnic minorities already in place in the USA and of course their very own black people, they were on the front lines, dying first by the hundreds if not thousands. The then Puerto Rican governer had decided that for every dead Puerto Rican soldier, there would be a Vietnamese killed on the island. At the time Vietnamese people were part of the island, as well as they were in many other places, before it became the attention of the world.

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