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BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE
David Yontef
4 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Introducing The Never-ending Battle of Henry Johnson from Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage.
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Henry Johnson, nicknamed Black Death, was one of the most famous American soldiers of World War I. He was part of the Harlem Hellfighters, the legendary all-Black U.S. Army unit, and awarded the French Croix de Guerre for single-handedly stopping an invading enemy force in the trenches. So how did he end up entirely forgotten? This is the story of one man’s inspiring fight – on and off the battlefield.
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| 0:00.0 | Bushkin. |
| 0:10.0 | The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Since it was |
| 0:15.1 | established in 1861 there have been 3,517 people awarded with the medal. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Malcolm Gladwell and our new podcast from |
| 0:24.3 | Pushkin Industries and I Heart Media is about those heroes. What they did, what it |
| 0:29.8 | meant, what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. |
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| 1:06.0 | F.M slash Plus. Now on to the episode. It was a clear day in New York City, February 1919. The winter sun shone down warmly on |
| 1:22.0 | masses of people lining both sides of Fifth Avenue. |
| 1:25.9 | The parade route was seven miles long, and they were cheering crowds along every inch of it. |
| 1:31.7 | People were jostling for a peak of thousands of soldiers who were |
| 1:34.7 | marching uptown in perfect military formation. These men were just back from the most |
| 1:41.2 | apocalyptic conflict the world had ever seen. |
| 1:44.8 | World War I, the Great War, as they called it back then. |
| 1:49.4 | The men were wearing dark wool uniforms and steel helmets. The bayonets of their rifles gleamed in the sun. |
| 1:55.9 | Some of the men were shell-shocked, some were exhausted, all of them were grateful to have made |
| 2:01.6 | it back home. |
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