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Article: Under arms: the forgotten Black regiments of World War I. (includes related article)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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"I'm not here to glorify war," insists Rick Ford, sitting at his kitchen table. A talk soft-spoken man, he is dressed in blue jeans and a T-shirt that commemorates the Buffalo Soldiers, the famed all-black U.S. Army infantry regiment.
His apartment, in rural southern Maryland, in decorated with a collection of artifacts and mementos that documents his interest in military history. There are letters from troops to their families, a small but impressive collection or books, and photos of himself in military reenactments.
But if Ford doesn't want to glorify war, he does want to make sure that a particular group of soldiers in property remembered. Modified ...