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Leon Thomas, raised in poverty, decorated in combat, successful in business, dies at 89
He was born in Oklahoma and raised in a little sharecropper village called Poverty Hill. He later found success in Bakersfield, but not before becoming a war hero after earning a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his actions as a U.S. Army medic in Korea. Path to Full Story on The Bakersfield Californian
