Whether joining the military from Puerto Rico. the closest enlisting station to the territory or from where they had migrated in New York or elsewhere. our young men joined to defend our nation and some of them paid the ultimate sacrifice. It was after World War II. in the period between 1950 and 1970. with increased economic expansion and political power that the population in the Virgin Islands began to double and triple. It was the result of increased birth rate. immigration from the mainland. Puerto Rico and the surrounding Caribbean islands to fill the new jobs created by the expanding tourism industry and the new oil and aluminum refineries and watch industry. There was also a movement of native Virgin Islanders who had moved away in earlier decades for economic opportunity back to the islands.
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