On this Memorial Day we gratefully remember those who have given their lives in the defense of our country. In this post, however, I would like to direct your attention to an article about a hero of World War I who by all rights should have died in the war but amazingly did not.

This article about Henry Johnson (by Jake Rossen of Mental Floss) recounts an incident which reads like it was lifted out of a Hollywood blockbuster. Two guys with no functioning rifles successfully fight off several dozen enemy soldiers and hold the bridge they were guarding.

Many, many Americans have heard of Sergeant Alvin York and his incredible feats during the Great War. Hollywood indeed did make a movie about him. It’s long past time, though, for all of us to know about Henry Johnson. Are you listening Hollywood?