I wish them a superbly ass-kicking season.

🚨INCREDIBLE: He was burning alive, yet he kept re-entering the burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle until all six soldiers and the Iraqi interpreter were safe.

Burns covered 72% of his body. His first words were, ‘How are my boys?’ He died three weeks later.

It took 16 years for him to receive the Medal of Honor. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE; NEVER FORGET!

https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/cashe/

He is the reason Mt. Meigs Alabama is what it is today. Brake B. Lucas Sr, the undertaker who’s story was hidden!

"As you shouldn’t expect another man to give you the clothing that you need to cover your own body, so you should not expect another race to give you the education to challenge their rights to monopoly and mastery. You must take for yourself that which they also want for themselves."

- Hon. Marcus 'Mosiah' Garvey

https://garveynation.com/university:garvey

Born enslaved on Bourbon Island (now La Réunion) in the Indian Ocean. He was barely recognized and received no wealth for his genius, yet his simple method transformed global trade and changed history forever.

His biography written by Gaelle Belem, in "le fruit le plus rare" is striking. (It's in french, but there is an english translation).

As a baby he was offered to a depressed plantation owner and botanist, Ferreol Bellier-Beaumont, to occupy his mind and cure his depression. Edmond was raised as gardener.

The secret of vanilla cultivation was lost after Cortes conquest of Mexico, making the plant unavailable to the world. Bellier-Beaumont like many botanist of his time was tasked with finding a way of pollinating the vanilla flower, unsuccesfully.

In 1841, a year after his owner have given up, Edmond find the secret of the flower on its own : a small membrane separating the pistil and the etamine, and he created a simple method to cultivate the plant.

Despite admitting that Edmond found the method himself without his help, Bellier-Beaumont granted him neither his freedom nor money for 7 year, until he finally freed him one month before slavery was abolished in 1848. (And after the abolition was anounced).

When freed Edmond took the name Albius in reference to the white color of the vanilla flower, and got hired as a cook in rich house. The new abolition of slavery didn't prevent his new employer to exploit him, paying barely enough for him to survive. Out of desperation he stole some food and various items in the house and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

He was released after 5 years, thanks to the the action of a group of botanists of the island (including its former master), who came to his defense.

He lived the rest of his life in poverty and relatively unknown and died of a fever in his 50s.