369th Infantry Regiment

I went to see there's a fabulous UB Blake collection at what is now the Maryland State centered for culture and history, that, you know, the family brought it there.

So there were like 37 boxes full of stuff and letters from UB to James Reese Europe, who was over in Europe with the, you know, his fabulous 369th, with the Harlem Hellfighters, you know, so these regiment bands.

So all of that, you know, kind of is part of what we think of as, you know, the development towards towards what we call jazz, you know, syncopated, ragtime, orchestrated tunes.

You know, there was a fabulous drummer that worked with James Reese Europe, Buddy Gilmore, you know.

Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the Army's first black general.

His son led which famous unit? A, the Buffalo Soldiers, B, the Harlem Hellfighters, C, the Tuskegee Airmen, Or D, the Navajo Code Talkers?

Has to be the Tuskegee Airmen.

Those are the most famous ones, right? I would think so, too.

that's your, I don't know who this dude is, man.

Um, Lastly, the Harlem Hellfighters were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.

This one was cool.

I had to do some digging on the Harlem Hellfighters.

I heard of them before.

I didn't know too much about them, but then after seeing this article...

so they were part of the 369th infantry regiment from world war one the soldiers spent 191 days in combat more than any other u.s unit in the war suffered over 1500 casualties fought bravely overseas while facing racism back home and then they earned their name the Hellfighters you know so the honor was signed the the medal was signed uh back in 2021 but the ceremony just happened with uh the defense secretary or the secretary of war now presenting the medal so very long overdue congratulations to the descendants of the or to the Harlem Hellfighters and for the descendants on receiving those awards for these gentlemen very cool And that is it.

That was my five things

My family is from the military.

My great-grandfather served in the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I in the 1900s, early 1900s.

And I know that...

Pete Hexeth doesn't even understand the history of the military that he's supposed to be running.