#Black veterans

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Sleeping Marine by Esther Bubley 1942

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9th Cavalry Personnel with Red Cross Canteen Worker

Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of TransportationSeries: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation

This black and white photograph shows a group of seven African-American soldiers posing for a photo around an African-American Red Cross worker. The soldiers wear helmets and carry all their equipment.  Several hold paper cups.  The Red Cross worker wears an overcoat and is holding a water bucket.

Original caption: "Colored enlisted men of unit 5891-E (A detachment of the 9th Cavalry) are shown on pier 2 with Red Cross Canteen Worker, Helen Alston, before sailing overseas. Official Photograph U.S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News Virginia.

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How Black WWI veterans got their own VA hospital in Tuskegee : NPR

[otoso]

Isaac Woodard was a Black World War II veteran who became known to the world as the victim of a horrific act of racist violence that robbed him of his sight. On February 12, 1946, Woodard was beaten and blinded on his way home from the war, hours after his honorable discharge.

Woodard had to begin a sightless life. The NAACP took up his case, Woodard became a cause célèbre when it’s executive secretary convinced legendary actor and director Orson Welles to publicize Woodard’s story on his radio program.

Woodard became a cause célèbre when the association’s executive secretary convinced legendary actor and director Orson Welles to publicize Woodard’s story on his radio program

Congress passed legislation that gave full disability to service members injured between the time of their discharge and their arrival at home. Woodard’s pension increased to today’s equivalent of around $45,000 per year.

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Hoodoo Veneration Days in May 2023

The 2023 Hoodoo's Calendar recognizes these Hoodoo Saints & Elevated Ancestors on the following dates in the Month of May:

5/8 Ancestor "Phyllis Wheatley" (B-Day) Offering Suggestions to "Phyllis Wheatley" : libations of water, read/share her poetry, & foods/music from Gambia/Senegal & Ancestor Robert Johnson (B-Day) Offering Suggestions to Robert Johnson : listen to/share his music, play Mississippi delta blue's , & menthol cigarettes 5/19 Elevated Ancestor Brother Malcolm X (B-Day) Offering Suggestions to Malcolm X: libations of water, read/share his work, & prayers from the Quran 5/30 The Founding Of Memorial Day  Offering Suggestions to Our Fallen: libations of dark liquors at their grave sites/battlegrounds, prayers toward their healing and elevation, & 21 gun salute 🌟 FINAL copies of The 2023 Hoodoo's Calendar are available for purchase! Subscribe to the official e-newsletter for the latest updates & exclusive content access. https://thehoodoocalendar.square.site 🌟  

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Veterans Day ceremony for Chicago service members: ‘They went with hope’ - Chicago Sun-Times

Happy Veterans Day...

[realjaysumlin]

I'm a veteran myself and I don't have any problem with Black Women and Men kneeling to a flag and a country who took a knee on us.

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Prophets AU

[aurabora]

alicent is a “childbride at 15” and suddenly her growth is stunted forever and she can’t be held accountable for her actions but luke was “nearly a man” when he died at 13 so therefore he deserved to die and has to answer for the “sin” of taking his uncles eye out? mkay.

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Give it another two years and Minka Lesk will be Lord Militant of the Astra Militarum.

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Market St. (Philadelphia), 1937. Louis Faurer. Gelatin silver print.

[redpillfuturist215]

Aug 26, 2024 Three years ago today, 13 American heroes were killed in the Harris-Biden botched Afghanistan withdrawal. To this day, Kamala Harris has never mentioned these fallen soldiers' names. President Trump will never forget them www.donaldjtrump.com

[todaysdocument]

Christmas Dance at Negro Service Club

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

This black and white photograph from 1943 shows a gymnasium filled with African-American soldiers and their dance partners.  The room is decorated with crepe paper, and a jazz ensemble plays live music.  Everyone looks happy.

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Typing "capsaicin snake effect" into the search bar so i can figure out if yakumo can eat spicy food

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Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorchester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s National Guard. Gov. Wes Moore called the occasion not just a great day for Tubman’s home state but for all of the U.S. “Today, we celebrate a soldier and a person who earned the title of veteran,” Moore said. “Today we celebrate one of the greatest authors of the American story.” Tubman escaped slavery herself in 1849, settling in Philadelphia in 1849. Intent on helping others achieve freedom, she established the Underground Railroad network and led other enslaved Black women and men to freedom. She then channeled those experiences as a scout, spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, helping guide 150 Black soldiers on a gunboat raid in South Carolina. Nobody would have judged Tubman had she chosen to remain in and coordinate abolitionist efforts from there, Moore said. Read more at theGrio.com.1d