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** [[Antulio Segarra]], Colonel, US Army. In 1943, Segarra became the first Puerto Rican Regular Army officer to command a Regular Army Regiment when he assumed the command of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment which at the time was conducting security missions in the jungles of Panama. Plot: A, Row 0, Site 353.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interment.net/data/us/pr/nat/prnat_santoseo.htm|title=Puerto Rico National Cemetery – Surnames Santo-Seo – Puerto Rico|website=www.interment.net|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref> | ** [[Antulio Segarra]], Colonel, US Army. In 1943, Segarra became the first Puerto Rican Regular Army officer to command a Regular Army Regiment when he assumed the command of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment which at the time was conducting security missions in the jungles of Panama. Plot: A, Row 0, Site 353.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interment.net/data/us/pr/nat/prnat_santoseo.htm|title=Puerto Rico National Cemetery – Surnames Santo-Seo – Puerto Rico|website=www.interment.net|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref> | ||
** [[Pedro Vázquez (politician)|Pedro Vázquez Rivera]], Captain, US Marine Corps. Vázquez Rivera was an attorney and engineer who served as [[Puerto Rico]]'s eighth [[Secretaries of State of Puerto Rico|Secretary of State]] from 1979 to 1981 under Governor [[Carlos Romero Barceló]], Deputy Mayor of [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] from 1984 to 1988 under Mayor [[Baltasar Corrada del Rio]] and executive director of the publicly owned [[Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority]] (PREPA) from 1977 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/politica/nota/muereexsecretariodeestado-999388/|title=Muere exsecretario de Estado|date=23 June 2011|website=El Nuevo Dia|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref> | ** [[Pedro Vázquez (politician)|Pedro Vázquez Rivera]], Captain, US Marine Corps. Vázquez Rivera was an attorney and engineer who served as [[Puerto Rico]]'s eighth [[Secretaries of State of Puerto Rico|Secretary of State]] from 1979 to 1981 under Governor [[Carlos Romero Barceló]], Deputy Mayor of [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] from 1984 to 1988 under Mayor [[Baltasar Corrada del Rio]] and executive director of the publicly owned [[Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority]] (PREPA) from 1977 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/politica/nota/muereexsecretariodeestado-999388/|title=Muere exsecretario de Estado|date=23 June 2011|website=El Nuevo Dia|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref> | ||
** Frances M. Vega, SPC, US Army. First stateside born Puerto Rican female soldier to die in a war.<ref>Griffith, Frank. "Puerto Rican soldier killed in Chinook helicopter downing buried with full military honors" [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/memorial/20031110-1217-puerto-rico-soldier-funeral.html]. | ** Frances M. Vega, SPC, US Army. First stateside born Puerto Rican female soldier to die in a war.<ref>Griffith, Frank. "Puerto Rican soldier killed in Chinook helicopter downing buried with full military honors" [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/memorial/20031110-1217-puerto-rico-soldier-funeral.html]. Associated Press, November 10, 2003.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/foreign/puertorico/cemeteries/pr-national/pr-v3.txt|title=PRNC|publisher=|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} | ||
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