“Raise your right hand,” Speaker Sam Rayburn tells the young man, as he routinely told all the freshmen. The young man cannot. He has no right hand. He left it near San Terenzo in Italy during World War II. Lieutenant Inouye had lost his right arm on April 21, 1945, the day that he earned a Distinguished Service Cross that would later be upgraded to the Congressional Medal of Honor. [Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War II - Bill Yenne]“Raise your right hand,” Speaker Sam Rayburn tells the young man, as he routinely told all the freshmen. The young man cannot. He has no right hand. He left it near San Terenzo in Italy during World War II. Lieutenant Inouye had lost his right arm on April 21, 1945, the day that he earned a Distinguished Service Cross that would later be upgraded to the Congressional Medal of Honor. [Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War II - Bill Yenne]
“Raise your right hand,” Speaker Sam Rayburn tells the young man, as he routinely told all the freshmen. The young man cannot. He has no right hand. He left it near San Terenzo in Italy during World War II. Lieutenant Inouye had lost his right arm on April 21, 1945, the day that he earned a Distinguished Service Cross that would later be upgraded to the Congressional Medal of Honor. [Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War II - Bill Yenne]