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January 07, 1990 - Image 11

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Michigan Citizen, 1990-01-07

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ql Y C�uncl Pr
DETaOIT-A Retir
T e Celebr tioa bcld
for city of Detroit Council
. Erma HaMlerl�-_c,OII
Friday, December 29, i989
The Internati Marketplace.
HCDdersou, 0 held public
office aDd her tide for 16 years,
fought for lIWly a c use to
benefit the City 10 dearly
IoYed, Detroit.
Header on gracefully
� down � IoDg standing
pOSlttO� to cumbCllt City
I
DETRorr- Health and
Safe y Training for Hazardo
W te Activitie , a 40 hour
training required by OSHA .
be po red by the ichig
As oci tion of Minority En­
vironmental Services d�ech­
nologies (MAMEST),
accordin to the group's presi-
dent, H Reed.
e.dangers associ ted with
h zardou m terials while
rking t a bazardo e
. e e peat", Reed · ...... 0
reduce or elimin te the e
neusury
let
n ·r tlr
Couacil l'I'eI1idC1lt
Mahaffey.
There to scud H· off
in Ir d t,le, ere, the
Ho rable r of Detroi
.. CoIem·n Y Govemor of
Miclripn, James BI.p.r4, Lt.
Governor, Martha Griffiths
Ni Hooe!" and other City'
COUDCil members; •
InYOClbon by Kim
We ton, nd vocal tribute
rendered by Ortbeia Bames.
p n
ier
Continued frOID Pu 3
and beg n w lking bac
towards the �
Gates gave the order to fife
a few rounds of lead OYer the
heads of the Germans which
made m d . bciDg
capt by a Blac platoon
wasn't so bad after all, and sur-
rendered. I
Although war is tragic, it h
it lighter side. T e the incident
of Brooks Field, a main parad
ground at Fort Knox Kentucky,
which still disp ys huge pla­
que in ho or of the first soldier
ever ki1Ied in armour.
When army officials decided
II
to name the field after Broo
they looked up his records d
ent for his parents to be
presea th ceremony.
It turned out that, before all
of the millt ry figure he d ,
when Broo 'parents arrived
and "Lo and behold" they were
Black. Army offici h d no
'dea Brooks Blac t
the fiCId remains Broo Fi d
to this day.
The of the 761batallio
went to Northern High Scb I
in Detroit here they talkcid
with dents about history ukI
the B_tIe of the Bulge. One of­
ficer said to the students,
"There's DO reason in th orld
that our young Black people
can't lead this nation to a better
and further political-minded
tion,"
He revealed the circumstan­
ces around the B ttle of the
Bulge� He said it evolved be­
cause it w Hitl r's last chance
to some pullout a win over
the allied force .
Hitler did not achieve hi
goal:While . armyh dthe 101
airborne division trapped, the
761 tank b tallion, who far
south of that town, headed b
to . their fello officers in
b ttle.
Due to the eztre cold the
soldiers'guns began to freeze
up, which nothing in com­
parison to the vicious fighting
they encountered . th the Ger­
m ns in th ir effort to win the
ic
N
Hop dim for
chool fund.
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