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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Major David Erickson — citizenship and leadership
Description: Major David Erickson, of Knox, retired from a career in the military that taught him “we’re all much more alike than we are different.” He was stationed in Germany when the Berlin wall came down and soon after visited Prague. A Czech he met there was a boy when the Americans liberated Prague but told him the Russians rewrote the history books, removing the Americans’ role. “I never forgot,” said the Czech. Erickson now teaches Albany High School students in the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. The battalion is named for Sergeant Henry Johnson, a young African-American from Albany who, during...