On this episode of Our American Stories, The History Guy remembers a truly extraordinary Civil War heroine, Mary Edwards Walker. Our regular contributor Richard Muniz tells the story of an unforgettable accident at Ft. Irwin, California. For Chad and Jess Schumacher, life seemed to be going really well and as "according to plan" as life could... and then life took a number of sharp and unexpected turns and what resulted shaped their family and career for the next decade.
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Time Codes:
00:00 - The Only Woman to be Awarded the Medal of Honor
10:00 - Midnight at the Live Fire Exercise
35:00 - From Tech-Startup to Making a Wooden Pen with His Dad: The Story of Allegory
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