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FIRST MEXICAN NATIONAL RECEIVES MEDAL

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Though he had landed on the beaches of Normandy and been
wounded in battle fighting with the U.S. Army, Staff Sergeant
Marcario García was not yet a U.S. citizen when
President
Harry S. Truman
awarded him the Medal of Honor on August
23, 1945. García became the first Mexican national to receive
the American military’s highest honor.

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Marcario García  (January 20, 1920 – December 24, 1972)

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