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Changing milit ry hi lory .
not an y k. But throu the
dedicated eff rt: fa num r of
Blac veter 0 ably David
" Carr I of A�g lc th im-
r possible m y become reality.
I At the' start of the Korean
: War the mili ary ill oper ted
I with r cially grcgated uni _
'One of th units, th all-Blae
24th Infantry Regi ... _ ..... " ....
str ental in turning b c
orth Korean communists at
YC1ehon - a village about
halfway b teen Seoul and
Pu an. Pr ss di patches
, referred to 't "the fir sizable
, American ground viet ry" of the
· Korean War. The Department
r of the Army 110 ver desa d
1 thi encounter an insig­
nificant skirm' h and referred to
the 24th in ncompiimentary
let .
i The reaso why th ofli' 1
military history v: r . onis so im­
. portaat, olhe than the obvio
ooe of unfairly tarnishing the
of braw: fighting men, .
that history and scholarly
articles are wntten fro� them.
In fact, one boo written by
British �utbcw, uses , fau ty
ao;x>UD in his biography of the
rean War.
Eff'or to ew:rse'th' dis­
patagiDg military history ver­
sioo concern' the 24th have
not been easy. David Car'
� other BI ar vets h ve
bee petition' g : Army to
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'sse
omen from Western
Mich' n will gain converge
for the ever growing annual
Black Women's Rountable
Conference,
flfth uch will be
S turday, Sept, 17 at Kalamazoo
Central H'
The . -Survival for B
21st CeDbary .•
Rep:' . ti
Caucus Chair AI
Stal rth will be the keynote through Sept. 3 can be do
speaker. by Conta' Vi McMillon or
A variety of ps, ex- Lois Jackson at CBWR, P.O,
h it di plays and '�Ilterta' - \ Box 463, Kalamaroo, MI 9005.
ment will be presented Phone ' quiries should be
The g of the organization made by calliDgJ ye Johnson t
i to promote networking 6161344-2537 br LoisJ at
amoag B men, to serve 385-8191.
role models fo Blae youth, The oae-day CODfere ee wiD
to l'COOpix begin." .
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