Teófilo Marxuach
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Lieutenant Colonel Teófilo Marxuach,, was the person who ordered the first shots fired in World War I on behalf of the United States on a German cargo liner trying to leave San Juan Bay without permis
Lieutenant Colonel Teófilo Marxuach Ordered the first US shot fired in World War I
Capilla de Cristo, where Teófilo and Carolina were married
USS Newport News, previously Odenwald, in 1919
Marxuach's M1902 Officer's Saber (Sword) and Scabbard at the National Historic Trust site at Castillo San Cristobal in San Juan.
Gilberto José Marxuach
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Colonel Gilberto José Marxuach a.k.a. "The Father of the San Juan Civil Defense", was a former officer in the United States Army who in 1951 founded and became the first director of the Civil Defense
Teófilo Marxuach
…his body was exhumed and on May 3, 1957, and was buried in the Puerto Rico National Cemetery located in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, next to his son Colonel Gilberto José Marxuach (1910–1957) known as "The Father of the San Juan Civil Defense". Congressional Gold Medal…
Colonel Gilberto José Marxuach "Father of the San Juan Civil Defense"