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Food. Photography. First black Marines deserve congressional gold medal, House says. The House on Tuesday approved awarding the congressional gold medal to the first black Marines for their service during World War II in the face of discrimination. They're known as the Montford Point Marines after the segregated North Carolina camp where they underwent training. That training began after President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 signed an executive order opening the Marine Corps to African Americans. Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos expressed his support for the medal, saying in a letter to lawmakers that the Montford Point Marines "served with distinction in three of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific -- Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa," "defended a society that enjoyed freedoms they did not share" and "contributed, in large measure, to President Truman's decision to order the desegregation of the Armed Forces in 1948.'' "The Montford Point Marines fought an enemy abroad and injustice at home,'' Rep.
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