One hell of an epic thread:

The following is a true story. It’s an American story. Maybe the most American story. Stick around to the end.

— Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) November 23, 2020

They marched for most of three days. At dawn, on the third day, a squadron of Allied fighter planes, coming upon what they thought was a column of Nazi troops, swooped low to strafe them.

— Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) November 23, 2020

He hid in the hayloft of an abandoned Bavarian barn. Days passed. And then one afternoon he peaked through a crack in the wooded slats and saw a huge tank leading an armored convoy heading toward him.

— Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) November 23, 2020

From the tank’s hatch emerged CPL Bill Ellington, of the all-Black 761st, son of a slave. B-1713, who had lost his family and survived four years in the camps, fell to his knees before Ellington and repeated the few English words he knew: God Bless America! God Bless America!

— Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) November 23, 2020

Ellington lifted him into the hatch—and into freedom.Convict No. B-173 was named Samuel Pisar. He became an American citizen, a successful lawyer.His stepson, Tony Blinken (@ABlinken), will become America’s next Secretary of State.God Bless America! God Bless America!

— Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) November 23, 2020