President Donald Trump’s government order ending range, fairness and inclusion efforts throughout the federal authorities has resulted within the deletion of a U.S. Military web site web page a couple of army base renamed for a World Battle I hero.
Sergeant Henry Johnson, a local of Albany, enlisted in 1917 with the all-Black fifteenth New York Nationwide Guard regiment, which was additionally know because the Harlem Hellfighters.
Throughout his army profession, Johnson was awarded France’s Croix de Guerre after single-handedly combating off a German raiding occasion in Could 1918 — regardless of being significantly wounded.
He was posthumously awarded the Purple Coronary heart and obtained the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest army honor. And the army base previously referred to as Fort Polk, after Accomplice Basic Leonidas Polk, was renamed in honor of Johnson.
It stays to be seen if the net web page can be reinstated, as some others have.
