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Jake Auchincloss: “The Marine Corps had sent my grandfather to school to study…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 39:12

Put your own biography in this because you actually joined the Marines to fight. Why did you join? I joined because in part, I felt like I owed the Marine Corps. My own story. The Marine Corps had sent my grandfather to school to study engineering. He was a poor Jewish kid at a time when Jewish people throughout the world were being exterminated and the United States government gave him an opportunity that he then seized and to the end of his days, the most proud he ever was. (39:12–39:15)

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