Senator Daniel Inouye

 A real American hero. Daniel Inouye’s love for his fellow American was clear at age 17 during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when he rushed in to aid those wounded.
 
After graduating high school, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army, only to be denied by the U.S. government because of his Japanese descent. He and other Japanese Americans petitioned the government to allow them to serve in the armed forces.
 
After the government changed its policy and allowed Japanese Americans to serve in segregated units, Inouye joined the Army.
 
In 1945, as he led an assault on a German held ridge in Italy, he was shot in the stomach. He ignored his wound and kept advancing, taking out two German machine gun positions.

He was shot in the right elbow, leaving his arm dangling by the shreds, with a live grenade in his right hand. He grabbed the grenade with his left hand and threw it into a 3rd bunker and destroyed it. Inouye then advanced forward with his machine gun in his left hand, until he was shot in the leg and fell unconscious.
 
After the war, Inouye was elected to local and national offices in his home state, Hawaii. In 1962 he was elected as a U.S. Senator, where he served until his death in 2012.