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TIL about James Okubo, a Japanese American who was in college when WWII started studying dentistry, he was kicked out and sent to a Japanese internment camp in CA for 2 years. He then joined the Army as a medic and saved 25 men in a battle in 1944, was posthumously awarded the medal of honor in 2000

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