Quote of the Day — Ernest Childers
September 4, 2026
Your word is your sacred bond. Your legacy should be honesty, honor, and trust. — Ernest Childers
1918–2005
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1918–2005
Ernest Childers was a soldier of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the first Native American awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II. A second lieutenant with the 45th Infantry Division, he received the medal from General Jacob Devers in April 1944 for single-handedly clearing two German machine gun nests and capturing an enemy observer at Oliveto, Italy, on September 22, 1943, while fighting on a fractured instep. He remained in the Army and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1965.
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Kim Monson read this line from Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Childers early in the September 4, 2026 broadcast and used it to frame the rest of the hour. She had just finished his citation for the action at Oliveto, Italy, on September 22, 1943, where he advanced up a hill on a fractured instep and cleared two machine gun nests, and she set his standard of a word kept against what she says schools now teach children, which is how to be activists. Michael A. Hancock picked up the same ground later in the hour with his essay on moral agency.
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