Black History Month – Celebrating Our Warrior Women

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I took this picture while during research at Arlington Memorial, the site of the Women in Military Service for America memorial.  I found this beautiful warrior glaring, thinking.  I don’t know where she is, I don’t know where she was going.  I imagine her in a helicopter enroute to a mission with her comrades, or …

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Black History Month – Buffalo Soldier Baseball

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Family history had been a mystery to me prior to me “data mining” for my latest project “Moving Behind Moses – A poem celebrating African American Women’s  Contributions to the United States Military”.  My father didn’t talk much about his father, other than he left his mother.  My father was actually raised by his grandmother …

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