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Medal of Honor Monday: Army Spc. 5th Class Clarence Sasser
Army Spc. 5th Class Clarence Sasser was a part-time college student when he was drafted into the Army as a medic. He was sent to Vietnam at the height of the war and did his job so fearlessly during battle that he earned the Medal of Honor.
Sasser was born Sept. 12, 1947, and grew up in the small town of Rosharon, Texas, near Houston. He had a brother, a sister and four step-siblings who all lived on a farm with Sasser's mother and his stepfather, a church deacon who helped raise him.
Sasser went to Marshall High School and was in one of the school's last segregated classes. He played football and did well academically, graduating in 1965 near the top of his class.
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