b'HENRY . from page 10unit and the United States Army.LegacyIn 1919, co-founder of the American LegionTheodoreRoosevelt,Jr.,son offormerUnitedStatesPresident TheodoreRoosevelt,referredto Johnsonasoneofthe"fivebravest Americans"tohaveservedinWorld War I.Interestinobtainingfittingrecog-nitionforJohnsongrewduringthe 1970s and 1980s. In November 1991, a monument was erected in Albany, NewYork\'sWashingtonParkinhis honor,andasectionofNorthern BoulevardwasrenamedHenry Johnson Boulevard.In December 2004, the Postal facil-ity at 747 Broadway was renamed the "UnitedStatesPostalServiceHenry Johnson Annex".On September 4, 2007, the Brighter ChoiceFoundationinAlbany,New York,dedicatedtheHenryJohnson CharterSchool,withJohnson\'s granddaughter in attendance.A 1918 commercial poster honoring Johnson\'swartimeheroicswasthe subject of a 2012 episode of the PBS television series History Detectives.As of December 3, 2014, the nation-aldefensebillincludedaprovision, added by Senator Chuck Schumer, to award Johnson the Medal of Honor.For many years, it was thought that HermanArchibaldJohnsonwasthe sonofHenryJohnson.Intracking HenryJohnson\'sgenealogypriorto his being awarded the Medal of Honor, however, it was discovered that there was no family connection. The Army wasquotedassaying,"Whilewe appreciate the Johnson family fight-ingfortheawardandkeepingthe memoryandvalorousactsofHenry Johnson alive, we regretfully cannot recognize them as PNOK," or primary next of kin.In December 2014, the City School District of Albany established a Junior Reserveofficers\'TrainingProgram (JROTC) at Albany High School named the Henry Johnson Battalion in honor of him. The program currently enrolls over 100 cadets.In2017,Albany-areaPBSsta-tionWMHTairedadocumentary about Henry Johnson entitled Henry Johnson: A Tale of Courage.Johnson\'sstoryisrecountedin the song Don\'t Tread on Me (Harlem Hellfighters)bytheUkrainiandeath metalband1914ontheiralbum WhereFearandWeaponsMeet, released October 22, 2021.12 MAY 2023 BOCNEWS.com'