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And we return to our American stories.

Milton Nadler probably accumulated more stories by the time he was 30 years

old than most of us do in our lifetimes. Born in 1923 in Trenton, New Jersey,

Milton served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. He died at the age of 98 in 2022.

But what makes private first class Nadler's story

particularly impactful is that he was Jewish,

an enemy of the Nazis in an American uniform.

Let's get into this story.

Here's Milt.

I was on the street with my bicycle doing something, I don't know,

and then Pearl Harbor happened.

So I was a paper boy for the Trenton Times.

So they were passing out extras.

So I immediately grabbed all I could,

and went out an extra, extra, you know, the bomb

the Murrow Harbor and I got nickels and dimes. There was only two cents for a paper,

but whatever they gave me, thank you, thank you, thank you. I sold a ton of papers. I went

back and got more until I realized what really happened. So I made a lot, maybe, well, maybe $5 that day, but at the five hours at that time,

that was a lot of money.

Because we were very, very poor. I had no father.

I was supporting my mother and my sister, so I had two or three little jobs in the morning before school, and I did some of my little

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