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Tag: American Hero

American Hero

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —

Posted on May 20, 2013 READ MORE

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An American Story: Daniel Inouye

By Richard Reeves —

The senator had earlier risen to be Captain Inouye, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Italy, losing an arm as he ran ahead of his platoon and personally destroying three German machine gun nests on a steep ridge in San Terenzo.