bill mauldin was joe the straight guy. but mauldin later wrote his memoirs and said the last time he saw racing billy he was dead on the beach at sicily. and so he then went after that some years later to a reunion of the 45th at the museum dedication in oklahoma, and as he went in the theater there was racing billy sitting there in the audience. he goes up and says hey, you're dead. he says i know, he says i read your book. so anyhow, there were only five indian who is got congressional medals of honor in world war ii but they so many of them really did great war deeds. and here is ernie childers in the 45th. got a medal of honor. with the crow people, there was a fellow died a few years ago, andrew bird in the ground and he was just like audi murphy, he was in a battle, killed a large number of germans by himself, he ended up getting the silver star. i asked him, what were you thinking, he says i was thinking that i sure didn't want to die here because i want to be buried on my reservation so i fought like hell to keep t