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The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.

This medal is for the men who went down that day.

On Medal of Honor, stories of courage, you'll hear about these heroes and what their

stories tell us about the nature of bravery.

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Pushkin.

I was a fan of John McWhorter long before I met him for the first time.

McWhorter is a linguist at Columbia University

and a music lover and a New York Times columnist. Basically... before I met him for the first time. McCorder is a linguist at Columbia University,

and a music lover and a New York Times columnist,

basically a Renaissance man.

It was maybe 2019 when we first spoke.

At the time, I was working on something about Tom Bradley,

who was mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993.

And while I listened to old tapes of Bradley, I was struck by something I heard.

Listen.

There is nothing there to hide.

I want everybody to know that Tom Bradley's life has been an open book, and this is another demonstration of that.

Tom Bradley is black.

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