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7. Dumb? Oh, no! I'm sitting here with chills

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 02:35 PM

Nov 2018

running up and down my arms thanking you. Thank you so much is not even enough.

Here's a great photo of men of the 92nd Infantry Division from 1919 en route home. More of what happened to these 4 beautiful men when they got back - at
https://www.reddit.com/r/Colorization/comments/7pcdas/four_officers_of_the_us_armys_allblack_366th/

From 2012
FORT HUACHCUA, Ariz. - Retired Army Capt. Joseph Hairston, one of the first black officers commissioned to serve with the 92nd Infantry Division after its reactivation in 1942, made a surprise visit to the Fort Huachuca Museum on July 11. https://www.army.mil/article/83758/92nd_infantry_division_officer_revisits_fort_huachuca

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