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During his presidential inauguration in 1789, George Washington invited a Spanish businessman, Diego Maria de Gardoqui, to stand with him at Federal Hall. The honor was payback for the wartime support -- including arms, soldiers, ships, blankets, quinine and cloth for the uniforms -- that Spain and de Gardoqui himself, a prosperous banker from Bilbao, had given the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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But you don't have to come to New York to visit a museum -- though you should -- to know that Hispanics have been intimately linked to the United States and its military for as long as someone has bothered to keep records.

A 2002 essay in Army magazine, written by Col. Gilberto Villahermosa, an author and military expert, details the Hispanic influence throughout U.S. history. About 10,000 Hispanics fought during the Civil War, while some 200,000 were mobilized for World War I -- ``the bulk being Mexican Americans,'' he writes -- and 500,000 served during World War II. More recently,Windows 7 Activation Key, Hispanics have also served in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. An article published last year in Army Times explains that in 2007 Hispanics were 11.4 percent of all Army recruits and 15 percent of Navy recruits.
It may be impossible to know exactly how many Hispanics have died in U.S. wars, but we know that as of June, 2,061 Hispanics have been wounded and 489 have been killed or died in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a story by Rod Powers in About.com, a New York Times online publication.
And so it was with a measure of alarm and a large dose of outrage that I reacted to the news that Senate Republicans objected to an amendment attached to a military-spending bill that would have put more than 700,000 young undocumented immigrants on the path to citizenship.
Don't they teach American history on the Hill? Don't they have to know some of it before they get elected? Before they even think they can toy with people's lives from their perch in the land's most powerful but sometimes clueless legislative body?
None other than Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, argued against including the DREAM Act amendment in the military bill. McCain criticized it as a ``blatant and cynical attempt'' to go after the Hispanic vote. Since when is that a crime? And whatever happened to candidate McCain, by the way?
I can't think of a more-deserving bill to attach an immigration component to than a military spending bill. Not only because it would honor the thousands of Hispanics who have fought and died for this nation, but also because it would honor the non-Hispanic foreign-born who have done the same. In an attempt to demonize and trivialize the DREAM Act, opponents have turned it into a pro-Hispanic bill. But while it is true that many young Hispanics who were brought to this country as children would have benefited, they are not the only ones.
Recent statistics show that 55 percent of undocumented immigrants entered the country without permission (for example, a person who crosses the border -- from the south or the north). Yet 45 percent are immigrants who entered the country with a visa -- say, a travel or business visa -- and stayed once it expired; presumably, the majority of these visa-holders were not the Mexican peasants that so frighten the nativists.
While 57 percent of the undocumented come from Mexico, 10 percent are from Asia and 5 percent are Europeans and Canadians. Not all of them would have benefited from the DREAM Act,Office 2007 Keygen, of course,Office Professional 2007 Key, but a significant number would have.
Studies estimate that about 1.8 million of the 11 million to 12 million undocumented people in the United States are children. Of those, 1.3 million have lived in this country for five or more years and are enrolled in schools,Office Enterprise 2007 Key, learning to speak English, saluting the American flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. A good number of them may want to join the military some day.
In the trenches of the world, soldiers are all equal. Bullets don't discriminate. Neither should Americans, many of whom would do well to remember that it was the outbreak of the American Revolution that paved the way for improved relations between this then nascent nation and the Spanish-speaking world. The descendants of America's first friends are still here.