BIOGRAPHY-HENRY JOHNSON
The event that showed us who Henry Johnson was, transpired recently: While on night sentry duty on May 15th 1918, Johnson and his fellow Soldier, Pvt. Needham Roberts, were ambushed by a German raiding party consisting of at least 12 soldiers. While under enemy fire and even with his significant wounds, Johnson showed his boldness and bravery, causing the death of several enemies. When his fellow Soldier was severly injured, Johnson stopped him from being taken prisoner by the Germans, Johnson essentially threw himself into danger by leaving his position to engage an enemy soldier with a knife and his fists. With only a knife and being seriously wounded, Johnson continued fighting, took his knife and stabbed it through an enemy soldier's head. Johnson held back the enemy force until they retreated. The enemy raid's failure to secure prisoners was due to the bravery and resistance of Johnson and pvt Roberts. The effect of their fierce fighting resulted in the increased vigilance and confidence of the 369th Infantry Regiment. Henry Johnson was special during world war 1, because he has a recorded story of the immense bravery and courage he showed, to engage in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier, while wounded. He affected this war for all of us here at home, by saving himself and other soldier(s) from being captured by the Germans, which would have given them however so much, a bit of leverage on us in this war. We do not know much about Henry Johnson before his service in the military, but we do know now that he is/was here, our country is a safer place, and THIS event, will shape his life in the years to come. It goes without saying that this man took a huge risk, and overcame an immense obstacle of winning a fight in the military with a knife, although we can't determine if luck had anything to do with this immense success. (There is potential for the world to have been a better place if Henry Johnson had died, as he would have had a higher chance of recieving the medal of honor in 1918, rather than just being given to the french in an immensley disrespectful and shameful display of our countries view on African Americans at the time.)