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April 21, 1945, a ridge near San Terenzo in northern Italy. Twenty-year-old Lieutenant Daniel Inouye of the 442nd is shot in the stomach and keeps attacking. A rifle grenade nearly tears off his right arm while that hand still holds a live grenade. He pries it free with his left hand and throws it.
He lost the arm and his dream of becoming a surgeon. In 1959 he became Hawaii's first congressman, and took the oath with his left hand. In 2000 he received the Medal of Honor.
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