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'As India and the world commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, we applaud and greatly appreciate the initiative of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York for introducing legislation in the US Congress to honour the memory of the Mahatma, a person who inspired countless millions all over the world to take the path of truth, peace and non-violence,' said Sandeep Chakravorty, Consul General of India in New York. Let us all follow Gandhi's directive to 'be the change you wish to see in the world',' Maloney said. As a public servant, I am inspired everyday by his courage and example. 'His legacy inspired civil rights movements around the globe, from Martin Luther King's movement for racial equality to Nelson Mandela's fight against apartheid. His example energises us to devote ourselves to the service of others,' she said. 'Mahatma Gandhi's historic Satyagraha movement of non-violent resistance inspired a nation and the world. The announcement in this regard was made by Maloney during the popular India Day Parade in New York in August. Prominent among those include Mother Teresa (1997), Nelson Mandela (1998), Pope John Paul II (2000), the Dalai Lama (2006), Aung San Suu Kyi (2008), Muhammad Yunus (2010) and Shimon Peres (2014). The date has yet to be set.The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian honour given by the US Congress and very few foreigners have been recipients of this award. It now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature the medal will be awarded in a future ceremony. The bill to honor the Hellfighters overwhelmingly passed the House and unanimously passed in the Senate. 'It's never too late to do the right thing.' 'These brave men fought for America and the values we all cherish,' she said in a statement on the legislation. The Congressional Gold Medal, Deb Willett said, is an honor that is 'long overdue, but just the start.' In 2019, Willett was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart for his wounds. Each June, youth from across the nation are honored in the US Capitol for earning Congress highest award for youth - The Congressional Award Gold Medal. Leander Willett, of Glen Cove, N.Y., was stabbed with a bayonet and bombarded by mustard gas while fighting the Germans as a Hellfighter, his granddaughter said. But we can do our best to make it right.'

THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL AWARD SKIN

'We can't change what happened to too many soldiers like him, who went uncelebrated because our nation judged them by the color of their skin and not the content of their character. 'America can't change what happened to Henry Johnson,' Obama said.

He died of tuberculosis and heart inflammation a decade after returning from the war. Johnson advocated for veterans, but he suffered as one himself, struggling both in his marriage and keeping a job, according to the White House. 'But his own nation didn't award him anything - not even the Purple Heart, though he had been wounded 21 times.' Former President Teddy Roosevelt wrote that he was one of the bravest men in the war,' Obama said during the Medal of Honor ceremony for Johnson at the White House in June 2015. 'His picture was printed on recruitment posters and ads for Victory War Stamps. 1494 ), 12509 ( 3OJNI Education : award Congressional Gold Medal to honor GI Bill assistance recipients in recognition of contributions made to the Nation. Johnson, according to President Barack Obama, was 'one of our most famous soldiers of the war.' They returned home to a heroes' welcome, according to Smithsonian Magazine, with a victory parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City in February 1919. The Hellfighters took part in the Second Battle of the Marne and Meuse-Argonne, where the unit experienced high casualties - some of the worst of the war, with 144 dead and roughly 1,000 wounded. As the largest and oldest war veterans service organization, we have a long and proven history of providing vital assistance and support to Americas. John Pershing for reinforcements to support their exhausted troops, Pershing, who wanted American units to fight as a stand-alone force, offered up the 369th and assigned the regiment to the French as a combat unit.Д«y April 15, 1918, well before the American Expeditionary Forces engaged in their first major battle, the Hellfighters were on the front lines, fighting in skirmishes and enduring the onslaught of German forces, including the attack on Johnson that earned him the French Croix de Guerre and, nearly a century later, the Medal of Honor. 1, 1918, and were assigned to supply, where they unloaded ships, cleaned and provided logistics support in the region.ДЄs the French and British pressed American Expeditionary Forces commander Gen. Renamed as the 369th for its trip to Europe, the regiment of 2,000 soldiers arrived in Brest, France, on Jan. 'Our boys had some pretty bitter pills to swallow,' Sissle wrote. They trained in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1917, where they endured racism, insults and violence, according to the jazz great and unit member Noble Sissle, as noted in a 2018 article in Smithsonian Magazine.

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