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TIL about Ralph Lazo, the only non-spouse non-Japanese American citizen to volunteer to live in the Japanese-American internment camps during WW2. He would later leave the camp to join the US Army to help expel the Japanese military from the Philippines, earning a Bronze Star Medal.

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