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Besides three children, Shemin left behind numerous supporters who kept up the appeal for an upgrade. On June 2, 2015, his ...
In the December 1919 issue, National Geographic shared the firsthand account of how soldiers celebrated far from home in France. Nearly every billet in France where American soldiers last year ...
He predicted that WWI would be the last war in his article ... George Santayana, 1922 The Spanish-American philosopher said this statement to counter President Woodrow Wilson's words in ...
Georgia Southern University history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., has created an exhibit honoring African Americans from ...
Smithsonian collections document the patriotic service of African Americans throughout our Nation's history, from the American Revolution up to today. At the National Museum of African American ...
Amid the fighting, Shemin saw a soldier cut down 150 yards from the nearest cover. As his citation notes, Shemin “left cover and crossed an open space … exposed to heavy machine-gun fire” to ...
William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his heroic actions during WWI. (Congressional ... 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces.