Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) introduced a bill that could increase the number of U.S. Jewish veterans given the Congressional Medal of Honor. The bill would instruct the armed forces to review the war records of Jews who served in the armed forces beginning in World War II and who may have been denied the medal because of anti-Semitism.
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