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A black veteran and a Jewish veteran have been posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after performing acts of bravery and sacrifice during World War I. President Barack Obama awarded Army Private Henry Johnson and Army Sergeant William Shemin the highest military honor the U.S. can bestow in a ceremony at the White House Tuesday.
Though the White House did not specify in its May announcement of the upcoming ceremony why it took the better part of a century to recognize Johnson and Shemin, outsiders have said the delay is couched in discrimination.
“Henry Johnson, Albany resident and Harlem Hellfighter, is a true American hero, who displayed the most profound battlefield bravery in World War I, yet the nation for which he was willing to give his life shamefully failed to 
recognize his heroics, just because he was a black man,” Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement after the White House announced the news last month.
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