On this day, 11 July 1937, Jack Sirai, a Japanese cook who went to Spain to fight the fascists during the civil war, was killed in combat. A volunteer in the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade, he was shot dead after volunteering to fetch supplies for his starving unit. He was buried that night beside Oliver Law, an African-American volunteer.
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