US District Judge Reggie B. Walton found that the military judge who had ordered the dishonorable discharge had failed to disclose that he had applied to be an immigration judge,
badly injured during an accident, when gasoline exploded in a hole. something hit me in my chest. when i hit the deck and got up, a all of the skin was laying up. i said i want to come back but i want a family. reporter: burns covered 60% of his body. he was hospitalized several weeks. then, his family says the marines sent him back into action. he was ordered to go back into the war. he wasn t 100% healed. that was me getting married and so forth. reporter: i don t want to ask you what year that was. he received dishonorable discharge but was not treated by a war veteran back home when he struggled with racism and jim crow laws. he found work as a january store