Let the torch of freedom burn.

Welcome to the intersection.

Welcome to the intersection of faith and the culture. Thanks for joining us on

Wall Brothers. We're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical historical

and constitutional perspective. But before we take on a hot topic of the day,

we're going back to our heroes of history.

We've been talking about them all month and we'll continue throughout February.

By the way, I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach, and Tim Barton and David Barton are going to share about one of our heroes of history.

Tim, who are we talking about today?

This one is Sergeant William Carney and he was a Medal of Honor recipient.

Now we talked last week about another Medal of Honor recipient.

We talked about how in the course of American history there's been approximately

57 million Americans involved in the US military.

Among those, only about 3,500 have ever been recipients of the Medal of Honor.

And so you're talking about just a tiny percentage of people who have ever been awarded something that is this

significant, this prestigious, and it really is recognizing people that did something

incredibly courageous and heroic that sets him in a separate

category and Sergeant William Carney he was born in 1840 he was born actually

in slavery in Virginia's father was able to escape on the

underground railroad then raised money and was able to purchase and bring the

whole family out of slavery so William Carney is free begins to actually

studying to become a Christian minister the Civil War breaks out so it

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