The non-profit organization Latino Advocates for Education, in Orange, California, after years of research estimated by extrapolations of lists of soldiers that more than one hundred eighty thousand Latino soldiers participated in the Korean War. In a letter dated on November 10, 2007, addressed to Korean veterans, the US Congresswoman for California, Loretta Sánchez, stated that ""over 180,000 Hispanics Americans served in this war".Aguirre, Frederick P.; Martinez Aguire, Linda; Rodriguez, Rogelio C. (2007). “Freedom is not Free” Mexican Americans in the Korean War". Latino Advocates for Education. p. 15.
