i'm going to read out a little bit more about sergeant william carney. this is from the department website. if you stats. this is from 2017. at the time this article was written in 2017 there had been 3748 service members who had received the medal of honor. at the time, 88 have been black. it says, the first black recipient of the reward, william carney who earned the honor for protecting one of the united states greatest symbols during the civil war, the american flag. it does say in the first paragraph, carney was born into slavery in virginia in 1840. his family was granted freedom and moved to massachusetts where carney was eager to learn and got involved in academics despite laws that banned blacks from learning to read and write. you guys can learn more. the medal of honor website is very comprehensive. that is the congressional medal of honor society. cmohs.org where you can look up every medal of honor recipient and find out more about them. i am finding this website super interesting just to our conversation today. to the phone lines and to tal

i'm going to read out a little bit more about sergeant william carney.his is from the department website. if you stats. this is from 2017. at the time this article was written in 2017 there had been 3748 service members who had received the medal of honor. at the time, 88 have been black. it says, the first black recipient of the reward, william carney who earned the honor for protecting one of the united states greatest symbols during the civil war, the american flag. it does say in the first paragraph, carney was born into slavery in virginia in 1840. his family was granted freedom and moved to massachusetts where carney was eager to learn and got involved in academics despite laws that banned blacks from learning to read and write. you guys can learn more. the medal of honor website is very comprehensive. that is the congressional medal of honor society. cmohs.org where you can look up every medal of honor recipient and find out more about them. i am finding this website super interesting just to our conversation today. to the phone lines and to talk

i'm going to read out a little bit more about sergeant william carney.his is from the department website. if you stats. this is from 2017. at the time this article was written in 2017 there had been 3748 service members who had received the medal of honor. at the time, 88 have been black. it says, the first black recipient of the reward, william carney who earned the honor for protecting one of the united states greatest symbols during the civil war, the american flag. it does say in the first paragraph, carney was born into slavery in virginia in 1840. his family was granted freedom and moved to massachusetts where carney was eager to learn and got involved in academics despite laws that banned blacks from learning to read and write. you guys can learn more. the medal of honor website is very comprehensive. that is the congressional medal of honor society. cmohs.org where you can look up every medal of honor recipient and find out more about them. i am finding this website super interesting just to our conversation today. to the phone lines and to talk