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On June 2, 2015<\/span><\/span>, President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant William Shemin and to Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry during World War I.<\/p>\n Sergeant William Shemin will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions while serving as a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Sergeant Shemin distinguished himself during combat operations in the vicinity of the Vesle River, Bazoches, France, on August 7-9, 1918.<\/p>\n Sergeant Shemin entered the Army on October 2, 1917. He was assigned as a rifleman to Company G, 47th Infantry Regiment, which moved from Syracuse, New York to Camp Greene, North Carolina, joining the 4th Infantry Division. The Division arrived in France in May, 1918.<\/p>\n While serving as a rifleman from August 7-9, 1918, Sergeant Shemin left the cover of his platoon\u2019s trench and crossed open space, repeatedly exposing himself to heavy machine gun and rifle fire to rescue the wounded. After officers and senior non-commissioned officers had become casualties, Shemin took command of the platoon and displayed great initiative under fire, until he was wounded, August 9<\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Ms. Elsie Shemin-Roth of Webster Grove, Missouri, will join the President at the White House to accept the Medal of Honor on her father\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n Shemin is just one of so many who served bravely during World War I and other wars, whose gallantry in battle was\u00a0denied its full measure of recognition due to discrimination among the ranks of those who recommended the awarding of medals.<\/p>\n There is a great collection of photos of Sergeant Shemin on flickr<\/a> and you can learn more about him on the official Medal of Honor page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On June 2, 2015, President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant William Shemin and to Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry during World War I. Sergeant William Shemin will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions while serving as a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,43,1],"tags":[28,156,27,163,30],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-04 00:14:14","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewsingreen.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"shemin2\"](\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shemin2-600x376.jpg\")
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