11/ But that's not where Garcia's story ends, because when he returned to Texas he continued to endure bigotry. He was infamously denied service at a restaurant. "I've been fighting for people like you, and now you mistreat me," he reportedly said.
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On this day in 1944, US Army Pvt. Macario Garcia, a Mexican national who lived in Texas and was drafted into the Army in '42, performed acts of heroism that earned him the Medal of Honor.
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27 November 1919 | Wassily Smirnow was born. A Soviet army soldier.
In #Auschwitz from October 1941.
No. R-2720 (Soviet prisoner of war)
He perished in the camp on 30 October 1941.
27 November 1929 | Czech Jewish girl Hana Neuschulová was born in Ústí nad Labem.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
SCOTT DAVIDSON of Wichita, Kansas died of COVID in November.
He was an active duty firefighter for the Kansas City Fire Department.
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News: The apparent head of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated, @NPR confirms. It's unclear how he was attacked outside Tehran.
Beware of #BlackFriday scams. If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. Report internet crime and fraud schemes to the #FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at https://t.co/MWss57C5gI.
@RadioFreeTom @CaseyNikoloric It’s difficult to be this close to accurate and still be broadly wrong-headed, but you do accomplish it @RadioFreeTom. :)
If for no other reason than self preservation, it behooves us to be deeper than this in our understanding of what makes America tick.
Secularists do love going to the liquor store with hundreds of their fellow nonbelievers - where they then sing and read aloud together for multiple hours - so this argument makes total sense
27 November 1942 | A Polish woman Anna Smoleńska (b. 20 Feb 1920) was incarcerated in #Auschwitz.
A girl scout, student of history of arts, author of the 'Kotwica - Fighting Poland' emblem (https://t.co/fIFuwVAkxp ).
She received no. 26008. She perished on 19 March 1943.
27 November 1937 | Dutch Jewish girl Ina da Costa da Fonseca was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
27 November 1905 | Czech Jewish woman Ilsa Strossová was born in Brno.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
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HOWARD "CHAIM" REISNER, 78, of Pittsburgh died of COVID on April 6.
"A furniture repairman who took his craft to the level of art...he wrote a cookbook called ''Happy Kosher.''
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