He must have felt really cold.
Wow! That was a very interesting read...thank you for posting that link. Glad he finally was given his place among the honored of our nation...long past due.
“In 1986, Dr. Counter journeyed to Greenland and found the sons of Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson (fathered with Inuit women). Subsequently he brought them and their families to the U.S. where they met American relatives and visited their fathers’ gravesites. Dr. Counter successfully petitioned President Reagan to place the remains of Matthew Henson where they belong—among the national heroes in Arlington Cemetery. On April 6, 1988, the remains of Matthew and Lucy Henson and his wife were re-interred with full military honours and an appropriate monument next to Robert and Josephine Peary in Arlington Cemetery.
Dr. Counter also garnered fitting acknowledgement of Matthew Henson’s Arctic and oceanographic explorations. On November13, 1998, the United States Navy commissioned the oceanographic vessel U.S.N.S. Henson, in honor of Matthew Henson.”