Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: William Shemin was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Oct. 14, 1896. During his teenage years, Shemin played semi-pro baseball. He graduated from the New York State Ranger School in 1914, and went on to work as a forester in Bayonne. After the United States entered World War I, Shemin enlisted in the Army, Oct. 2, 1917. Upon completion of basic training at Camp Greene, North Carolina, he was assigned as a rifleman to Company G, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in France. 
  
 During Shemin's service, he participated in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, where he took shrapnel and was wounded by a machine gun bullet that pierced his helmet and was lodged behind his left ear. Following his injuries, Shemin was hospitalized for three months and later received light duty as part of the Army occupation in Germany and Belgium until he completed his tour. 
  
 For the injuries he sustained during combat, Shemin received the Purple Heart. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for battlefield valor, Dec. 29, 1919. 
  
 Shemin was honorably discharged in August 1919, and went on to get a degree from the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. After graduation, he started a greenhouse and landscaping business in Bronx, New York, where he raised three children. Shemin died in 1973. ||||| Born William Henry Johnson in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Johnson moved to New York as a teenager. He worked various jobs - as a chauffeur, soda mixer, laborer in a coal yard, and a redcap porter at Albany's Union Station. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, June 5, 1917, and was assigned to Company C, 15th New York (Colored) Infantry Regiment - an all-black National Guard unit that would later become the 369th Infantry Regiment. 
  
 The 369th Infantry Regiment was ordered into battle in 1918, and Johnson and his unit were brigaded with a French army colonial unit in front-line combat. Johnson served one tour of duty to the western edge of the Argonne Forest in France's Champagne region, from 1918-1919. 
  
 For his battlefield valor, Johnson became one of the first Americans to be awarded the French Croix de Guerre avec Palme, France's highest award for valor. 
  
 Johnson returned home from his tour and was unable to return to his pre-war porter position due to the severity of his 21 combat injuries. Johnson died in July 1929. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. 
  
 Johnson was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart in 1996 and the Distinguished Service Cross in 2002. |||||  
  
 Sgts. William Shemin, left, and Henry Johnson posthumously will receive the Medal of Honor at the White House on June 2, 2015. (Photos released by the U.S. Army) 
  
 Army Pvts. Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts were serving as sentries under cover of darkness in France’s Argonne Forest in 1918 when reality set in: The two soldiers were surrounded by more than a dozen Germans, and in danger of being killed or taken prisoner. The German raiders opened fire on the the two men, wounding Johnson three times and Roberts twice, but Johnson fought on with an aggression that shocked the Germans even after his weapon wouldn’t fire anymore. 
  
 An account of what became known as the Battle of Henry Johnson was documented in a letter to the soldier’s wife, Edna, and read into the Congressional Record a few months later. His commanding officer, Col. William Hayward, credited the 5-foot-4 Johnson — nicknamed “Black Death” — with stopping the Germans in the early hours of May 15, 1918, from dragging away Roberts. 
  
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 Johnson concussed one German with the butt stock of his rifle, and then sunk a heavy bolo knife he was carrying into another’s head, killing him. He stabbed to death at least one more attacker who was beating Roberts, allowing the Americans to toss hand grenades that prompted the rest of the Germans to flee. 
  
 Henry Johnson left the Army as a sergeant. (Photo released by the U.S. Army) 
  
 Johnson is one of two World War I soldiers who posthumously will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s top award for combat valor, at the White House on Tuesday. The other is Sgt. William Shemin, who braved enemy fire repeatedly on Aug. 7-9, 1918, in France to recover fellow American soldiers who had been shot until he himself was wounded. Though praised by their fellow soldiers at the time, they were both denied the Medal of Honor for generations. 
  
 Concerns about racism have permeated both cases: Johnson and Roberts, both black men, received the prestigious Croix de Guerre for their valor from the French government, but went unrecognized by the U.S. military for decades. Johnson’s French award included a gold palm, indicating unusually great valor. Shemin, a Jew, received the Distinguished Service Cross, one step below the Medal of Honor, but little explanation was provided why the higher award for which he had been nominated was not approved. 
  
 The efforts to get the two men recognized have been filled with starts and stops, and the work handed down by generations of supporters. In Johnson’s case, it was bolstered by the office of Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D.-N.Y.), who submitted a 1,258-page recommendation for the award in May 2011 after numerous new documents were discovered. In Shemin’s case, his daughter Elsie Shemin-Roth, 86, collected records and enlisted the help of Missouri’s congressional delegation. 
  
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 “A lot of people advocated for this over a long period of time, so for this to happen now nearly 100 years later, it’s pretty incredible,” said a former staff member of Schumer’s, Caroline Wekselbaum, 32, who plans to attend the ceremony Tuesday and estimated that she spent thousands of hours on Johnson’s case. “This wasn’t my only job, but I dedicated a lot of time to this, and a lot of people did.” 
  
 A source in Schumer’s office said a local historian and Vietnam veteran, John Howe, came to them with the story in 1999, but died a few years later. The effort to get Johnson the Medal of Honor was blocked in 2003 by Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wanted more evidence, Schumer’s office said. The Army approved a Distinguished Service Cross, but Schumer’s office kept looking for more documentation of the soldier’s valor. 
  
 Schumer’s office credited Wekselbaum, in particular, with uncovering new evidence. One of her finds was a cablegram from Gen. John J. Pershing, the top U.S. general during the war. He cited the heroism of Johnson and Roberts in a memo to Washington while denying German propaganda that alleged that black American soldiers serving overseas were being mistreated, and said they faced a force of some 20 men. 
  
  
  
 This screen grab of a cablegram released by the office of Sen. Charles E. Schumer shows Gen. John J. Pershing citing the bravery of two black soldiers — including Henry Johnson — while defending the treatment of black soldiers in World War I. (Screen grab) 
  
 “Before day light on May 15 Private Henry Johnson and Private Roberts while on sentry duty at some distance from one another were attacked by German raiding party estimated at 20 men, who advanced in 2 groups attacking at once from flank and rear.” Pershing wrote in the May 20, 1918, message. “Both men fought bravely in hand to hand encounters, one resorting to use of bolo knife after rifle jammed and further fighting with bayonet and [rifle] butt became impossible.” 
  
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 The source called Pershing’s memo “the holy grail” in the case, and expressed frustration with the way Johnson was treated. As a black soldier in World War I, he and his colleagues in the 369th Infantry Regiment were loaned to the short-handed French military, but not allowed to fight in the U.S. force. 
  
 “The guy was a second-class citizen,” the official in Schumer’s office said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the case candidly. “He wasn’t even allowed to fight under our flag.” 
  
  
  
 Sgt. William Shemin, second from left, is shown here with fellow soldiers and a pup tent. (Photo released by the U.S. Army) 
  
 Shemin-Roth said in a recent news conference in Missouri that a wrong has been righted, and all is forgiven in her family. She credited retired Col. Army Erwin A. Burtnick, a leader in the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. organization, with urging her to seek the upgrade, and Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R.Mo.) with helping. 
  
 “Though my father always told me that his war experience was never about medals, I knew in my heart that he was deserving of the highest military award for valor, the Medal of Honor,” she said. “When the president called me last month to tell me that he had approved the Medal of Honor, I felt an enormous sense of pride as an American Jew, and for him, and for our family, and for the entire Jewish community.” 
  
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 Shemin served in the 4th Infantry Division’s 47th Infantry Regiment, and suffered shrapnel wounds while earning the Medal of Honor. He later sustained a gunshot wound to the head, but recovered and went on to play college sports at Syracuse University and raise a family with three children. He died in 1973. 
  
 Elsie Shemin-Rot will accept the Medal of Honor at the White House on Tuesday on behalf of her father, Sgt. William Shemin, for his efforts during World War I. He was denied the Medal of Honor for generations. (Defense Media Archive) 
  
 Johnson’s life after World War I was filled with highs and lows. A member of the New York National Guard, he deployed with an all-black unit that became known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” the 369th Infantry Regiment. The soldiers were honored with a parade when they returned to New York, but the injuries that Johnson sustained were never properly documented, so he did not receive a Purple Heart or the medical benefits he had earned. He died destitute in July 1929, 11 years after his heroism. 
  
 Correction, June 2: An earlier version of this story reported that Johnson had a son named Herman, citing earlier news accounts. As noted in this new Checkpoint piece, the Army no longer believes that is the case. |||||
Student:
Pvt. Henry Johnson is "one of the five bravest American soldiers in the war," Theodore Roosevelt once wrote. Today, Johnson will finally be recognized for his valor—almost a century after he joined an all-black National Guard unit and helped fight off German attackers while on loan to French forces during World War I. One of two soldiers to be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor today at the White House, Johnson and a fellow soldier were ambushed while on night sentry duty under a French Army colonial unit in the Champagne region on May 15, 1918, the New York Times reports. With his compatriot seriously wounded, Johnson held off at least a dozen enemy soldiers. An Army account has this to say of his bravery: "Wielding only a knife and being seriously wounded, Johnson continued fighting, took his bolo knife, and stabbed it through an enemy soldier's head." He sustained 21 combat injuries in the war and died in 1929. "His act of heroism was amazing," says Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has for years fought for the recognition for Johnson, and who in 2011 submitted a 1,258-page document in support of it. (Much credit goes to former Schumer staffer Caroline Wekselbaum, 32, who in 2011 discovered two documents attesting to Johnson's valor; more here.) Sgt. William Shemin will also receive the Medal of Honor for having recovered wounded American soldiers during a three-day battle on France's Vesle River in August 1918. He "dashed out across the open in full sight of the Germans, who opened and maintained a furious burst of machine-gun and rifle fire," the Army says. A bullet sliced through his helmet and wedged behind his left ear, but he survived, dying in 1973. "I felt an enormous sense of pride as an American Jew, and for him, and for our family, and for the entire Jewish community," his daughter, 86, says of learning of the honor, per the Washington Post.