Raymond Hudlow was forcibly sterilized by the commonwealth of Virginia without anesthesia at the age of 17 for running away from an abusive home. A year and a half later, he was discharged from the state farm for the feebleminded and drafted into the Army where he landed on the beaches at Normandy and won Bronze and Silver Stars and a Purple Heart. He ended up serving over 20 years in the Army and Air Force. He later said that he had more flashbacks to his torture in Central Virginia than he did to combat or imprisonment in a German POW camp.
"They treated us just like hogs, like we had no feelings."
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