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United States Marine Corps first lieutenant of Hispanic descent, remembered for his actions during the Incheon landing in the Korean War, where he threw himself onto a live grenade to protect the soldiers in his platoon.

U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces captain of Puerto Rican descent, captured in South Vietnam where he led multiple escape attempts and refused to cooperate with his captors before his execution.

U.S. Army infantry staff sergeant who fought in the European Theater of World War II, distinguished for single-handedly neutralizing multiple enemy machine gun positions during the Italian campaign.

Private First Class in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, the son of Mexican immigrants, killed in action in Amfreville during the Battle of Normandy after destroying three German machine gun nests.

U.S. Army 75th Ranger Regiment master sergeant and Hispanic combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who remained on active duty after losing his right hand while throwing an enemy grenade away to save his fellow soldiers.

Career officer who became the first Hispanic American to reach the rank of four-star general in the United States Army, with a distinguished record of combat command in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant and Mexican American veteran who carried out a six-hour rescue under intense fire in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, sustaining more than thirty wounds.

Private First Class in the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Regiment and World War II veteran who single-handedly held off the advance of a German armored vehicle and troops in France to allow his patrol to withdraw.

U.S. Army master sergeant with the 65th Infantry Regiment ("Borinqueneers"), a Puerto Rican veteran who held off a massive enemy offensive at Kalma-Eri during the Korean War by throwing grenades throughout an entire night.