Tara Johnson says she's ecstatic to finally near her grandfather, Henry Johnson, has been awarded the nation's highest military honor - the medal of honor. She says it makes no difference that the medal comes ninety seven years after his heroic actions in France.
"The fact that we as a country found the evidence and the energy and the time to take and make something right - it's never too late."
Sgt. Henry Lincoln Johnson is credited with driving back about twenty German raiders, fighting hand-to-hand with a bolo knife and saving a fellow soldier on May 14, 1918 in France. France awarded him its highest honor, the Croix de Guerre.
Johnson's medals include the Purple Heart awared in 1996, and the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, which he received in 2003. He has a street named after him in Albany and a monument with his bust at the top in Washington Park.
