BROUGHT TO THE STATES AS A TEENAGER FROM HIS native Puerto Rico, Domingo Arroyo quickly learned that America is not always the promised land. With his mother Ramona and younger brother Ramon, he grew up in a grim housing project in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and struggled with studies in high school. He saw military service as the path to a better life and seemed well on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo, 21 -- who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm -- pulled duty...
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