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As Black History Month gets underway, I wanted to take the time to share the story of the 369th Infantry Regiment from World War I, that went on to be dubbed the Harlem Hellfighters. These men had to fight for their right to fight for their country and to avoid the menial labor tasks most segregated units were assigned upon arriving in Europe in World War I. They got their wish and faced intense combat over 191 days at the front, the most of any US regiment during the Great War.

Part I is an overview of their story and next week's Part II will focus on men in the regiment, one who was already renowned before the war, but whose wartime service exported jazz to Europe, and one who became a household name after his exploits on the battlefield.

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This concluding episode in the Joe Beyrle saga sees Joe Forrest Gump his way into the Red Army, fight along side Soviet soldiers, and somehow avoid death on the battlefield all while having a personal interaction with Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the most famous leader in the Red Army. His bad luck with trains continues but eventually he makes it to a US Embassy, where he is suspected of being a foreign agent, possibly sent to assassinate the ambassador. This story can never be made into a movie because people will find it too unbelievable!

This week's Ghost of Arlington is:

Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Beyrle (Section1, Grave 73-B)

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This week we follow Joe Beyrle from his transportation from temporary POW camps in France to permanent camps in Germany, and finally, to on in Poland. Along the way he has to recover from a fractured skull that left him in a coma for six days, survive American fighters strafing his train car, unaware that it is transporting American POWs, and torture by the Gestapo that nearly killed him after yet another failed prison break.

I imagine that you have gathered from the titles of this series of episodes that at some point he'll be successful in his endeavors to re-arm and right the Nazis again, but it won't be this week!

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After a two week break, I am glad to be back and hope your new year is off to a wonderful start! This week in part two of a four part tale, we continue to story of Joe Beyrle. After he jumped into Normandy with 3rd Battalion, 101st Airborne Division he finds himself alone and does his best to cause a little mischief. He is then captured not once, but twice by the Germans and learns the sad fate of his battalion commander and two best friends. This is all before he comes face to face with the senior German commander in France, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and ends up in a comma for six days.

We have no Ghost of Arlington this week but we do honor the following:

1. Army Private First Class Jack Brey
2. Army Private First Class Orv Vanderpool
3. Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Bull" Wolverton (US Military Academy Post Cemetery, Section VII, Row A, Grave 54)

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Don't miss the special announcement at the start of the episode about the new-ish format I will be adopting so that I don't go insane trying to produce too much content each week and a scheduling update for Christmas & New Years.

This week we start the multi-part tale of US Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Beyrle who went from an athletic kid with a scholarship to Norte Dame, to a 20 year old who made two solo clandestine jumps into Nazi-occupied France to deliver hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold to the French Resistance... that's hundreds of thousands of 1944 money - it would be millions of dollars today.

We end the episode on the eve of D-Day as thousands of American and British paratroopers get ready to jump into Normandy and start up the European Theater's western front.

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After killing US District Attorney Barton and getting off on the first-ever use of a temporary insanity defense, Dan Sickles keeps up the shenanigans for the rest of his life, becoming one of the most senior politically appointed generals in the Union, one of the most controversial figures of the battle of Gettysburg, military governor after the war, and a US ambassador. He also managed to get fired nearly every step of the way, too.

This week’s Ghost of Arlington is:

Army Major General Daniel Sickles (Section 3, Grave 1908)
 

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Dan Sickles might be best known as the US Representative from New York who shot and killed the unarmed US District Attorney Philip Barton Key in Lafayette Square. The murder of the son of Star-Spangled Banner author Francis Scott Key just steps from the White House drew the attention of the entire nation and was the first trial watched nationwide with real-time updates thanks to the telegraph.

Sickles admitted to killing key and several people saw the murder take place in broad daylight, so how did his legal dream team get him acquitted? Listen to part I of the Dan Sickles story to find out. You'll also get to hear about the time he presented an American brothel owner, who happened to be his plus one, to Queen Victoria at a royal reception in London and the time he had an affair with his future mother-in-law while his future wife was an infant. And yes, you read that last sentence correctly.

This mad lad lead such a crazy life that we're going to have to wait until next week to talk about how he became the highest-ranking non-West Pointer of the Army of the Potomac, his absolutely terrible decision-making skills at the Battle of Gettysburg, his affair with the Queen of Spain, and which museum has his leg bones on display. We'll also mention where in Arlington he is buried next week as well.

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Every year since 1992, Morrill Worcester, a wreath make from Maine, has been traveling to Arlington National Cemetery to lay wreaths on headstones in December. A viral photo in 2005 lead to the 2007 formation of the non-profit organization Wreaths Across America. If you would like to find out how to get involved, visit the website www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.

I am taking the week off for Thanksgiving so there won't be a new episode next week, but I want you to know that I am extremely grateful for YOU! and everyone else who has taken the time to download the podcast since its launch six months ago.

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This week's marathon episode fulfills my promise back in Episode 9 to tell the story of the men of the Allied Expeditionary Forces who selected the WWI Unknown Soldier and returned his remains to the United States for burial at Arlington. I also get to talk a little about my experience laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as part of the Tombs 100th anniversary commemoration. Spoiler: It was awesome!

This week’s Ghost of Arlington are:

1. Army Sergeant Edward Younger (Section 18, Grave 1918-B)
2. Navy Chief Gunner's Mate James Delaney
3. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Ernest Janson (Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY)
4. Army Master Sergeant James Dell (St. Augustine National Cemetery, FL)
5. Army Corporal Thomas Saunders (Golden Gate National Cemetery, CA)
6. Navy Chief Water Tender Charles Leo O'Conner (Section 17, Grave 22633)
7. Army First Sergeant Harry Taylor
8. Army Major Samuel Woodfill (Section 34, Grave 642)
9. Army Master Sergeant Louis Razga  (Longwood Cemetery, PA) 

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The fascinating conclusion to the story of the race to the North Pole between Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, and their chief rival Dr. Fredrick Cook.

This week’s Ghost of Arlington are:

1.  Navy Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (Section 8, Lot 15)
2. Josephine Peary (Section 8, Lot 15)
3. Matthew Henson (Section 8, Lot 15)
4. Lucy Henson (Section 8, Lot 15)
5. Marie Ahnighito Peary Stafford (Section 8, Grave 5190-6)
6. Army Captain Edward Stafford

Here are the websites with more information about next week's centennial anniversary of the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier:

1. For a free reservation to personally walk the Plaza of the Unknowns and lay flowers at the tomb:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-centennial-commemoration-public-flower-ceremony-tickets-171383882807

2. A full list of virtual programs put on by Arlington for the tombs centennial: https://arlingtoncemetery.mil/Tomb100/Centennial-Events 

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