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By ELIZABETH ROMÁN | masslive.com | Published: April 13, 2021 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (Tribune News Service) Harrowing memories of friends dying, hungry Korean children begging for food and brutal physical combat still haunt Victor M. Rosario 70 years after his service in the Korean War. “I remember a tall man coming to me and saying stop feeding the enemy, we can’t help the enemy, but it was a child and he kept saying he was hungry,” recalled the now 97-year-old Rosario. While he has moments in which he fades off and repeats the same phrases over and over, Rosario still vividly remembers his wartime service as a member of the Army’s renowned 65th Infantry Regiment knowns as “Los Borinqueneers.”
By ELIZABETH ROMÁN | masslive.com | Published: April 13, 2021 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (Tribune News Service) Harrowing memories of friends dying, hungry Korean children begging for food and brutal physical combat still haunt Victor M. Rosario 70 years after his service in the Korean War. “I remember a tall man coming to me and saying stop feeding the enemy, we can’t help the enemy, but it was a child and he kept saying he was hungry,” recalled the now 97-year-old Rosario. While he has moments in which he fades off and repeats the same phrases over and over, Rosario still vividly remembers his wartime service as a member of the Army’s renowned 65th Infantry Regiment knowns as “Los Borinqueneers.”
Legislation passed earlier this year designated April 13 as National Borinqueneers Day. The Puerto Rican men who served in the U.S. military during the wars were nicknamed “Los Borinqueneers.”
From left, Golden Years principals Brian Santaniello, Mary Flahive-Dickson, and Cesar Ruiz Jr.
Cesar Ruiz Jr. describes the business plan for Golden Years Homecare Services as “a living, breathing document.”
That intriguing phrase was chosen to convey many things all at once especially movement, flexibility, seemingly constant change, and a certain ambitious tone.
Indeed, while every business plan is fluid and most are written in pencil figuratively speaking, anyway this one has been altered countless times since it was first drafted more than eight years ago, and the new lines on the page reflect why Ruiz, the company’s president, and the entire leadership team at this East Longmeadow-based venture have been named Top Entrepreneur for 2020 by BusinessWest.