Only three Medals for this day in history, all in the modern era - one for World War II the other two for those dark desperate days of Korea, 1950. While it looks like the Medal was a particularly harsh mistress on this day - in truth, only two of these awards, the ones for Korea, went to two Marines who died earning them. Tech 5 Okubo survived World War II, and died in 1967, 34 years before the Army was forced to face the racist realities of it's WWII awards policies, and 22 Medals were presented to Nisei soldiers...
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Nov 04 2009, 05:10 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..