joseph medina. at the time he was 99 years old, and he was a decorated army veteran. we will only lost him last month at age 103. so he told me his story back when he was 99. he was brought to our country from mexico when he was five years old. he had no idea that he wasn't born in our country, and he grew up in sleepy eye, minnesota. then he signed up to serve in world war ii. and that was when they found out that he was in fact undocumented and hadn't been born in our country. and back then as he described it to me, the military wanted people to serve, so they would have them go to canada. the direction of our military, he went to canada for one night, stayed in, his words, a nice hotel, and then came back to minnesota, and magic, he was legal. he then went and served under general macarthur in the pacific, and he then came back to the united states, met his wife, got married, had kids, and his son served in the vietnam war. so i had the privilege of hosting him at the world war ii memorial that he had never seen before, with his son who is a vietnam vet, so he coul

i talked about joseph medina. he was a decorated army veteran. he served in world war ii. he was in minnesota. and i'm sad to say he passed away last july at the ripe old age of 103 years old. there was a story about joe in today's edition of our largest newspaper in minnesota honoring his contributions to our nation during world war ii and through his nearly a century as a proud and hardworking minnesotan. so joe lost both of his parents before he was one year old. he was brought to the u.s. from mexico by his aunt when he was just five, and he didn't find out that he was undocumented his whole time growing up. when did he find out? when he tried to join the army in world war ii. so what he did then, because he wasn't a citizen -- and back then it was pretty simple. what they would do is they would have people go to canada, especially if they lived in minnesota, and that is how they would become citizens. so they sent joe medina to canada for one day. i remember him telling me this story that that's what they did during world war ii when they wanted people to sign up and