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Most people have heard military cadences.
The chants.
The rhythm.
The calls that soldiers repeat while marching.
But here's the part people miss.
A Foundational Black American soldier named Pvt. Willie Lee Duckworth is credited with creating the original "Sound Off" cadence that helped inspire the marching chants still used today.
In 1944, during World War II, Duckworth was marching with tired soldiers at Fort Slocum, New York.
But he started calling out a rhythm.
And the soldiers answered back.
The energy changed.
The march changed.
The spirit of the group changed.
That simple call became known as the Duckworth Chant.
And it spread throughout the Army.
More than 80 years later,
soldiers are still marching to cadences built from the same tradition.
Think about that for a second.
A Foundational Black American soldier created something designed to keep people moving together.
And that tradition still echoes across military bases today.
That story deserves to be remembered.
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