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<p>[QUOTE="Mill Cove Treasures, post: 44069, member: 60"]Thank you for the link. The blacks were definitely in segregated units back then. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the section from that Buffalo Soldier Page that made me think this might be part of that veteran group. </p><p><br /></p><p>"The veteran Buffalo Soldier regiments of the Regular Army were also denied the opportunity to go into battle on the Western Front. The <a href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-infantry-buried-at-the-presidio-national-cemetery.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-infantry-buried-at-the-presidio-national-cemetery.htm" rel="nofollow">24th Infantry</a> had been on the Mexican border since 1916 and remained there. The <a href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-buried-at-san-francisco-national-cemetery.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-buried-at-san-francisco-national-cemetery.htm" rel="nofollow">10th Cavalry</a> was also assigned to patrol along the border. The military justified this action by saying that the country needed a dependable force on the border with <a href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/pursuing-pancho-villa.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/pursuing-pancho-villa.htm" rel="nofollow">Mexico</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 9th Cavalry spent the war years in the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/the-philippine-insurrectiothe-philippine-war-a-conflict-of-consciencen-a-war-of-controversy.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/the-philippine-insurrectiothe-philippine-war-a-conflict-of-consciencen-a-war-of-controversy.htm" rel="nofollow">Philippines</a> <a href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/footnotes.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/footnotes.htm" rel="nofollow">(39)</a>. The 25th Infantry was garrisoned in Hawaii."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mill Cove Treasures, post: 44069, member: 60"]Thank you for the link. The blacks were definitely in segregated units back then. This is the section from that Buffalo Soldier Page that made me think this might be part of that veteran group. "The veteran Buffalo Soldier regiments of the Regular Army were also denied the opportunity to go into battle on the Western Front. The [URL='http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-infantry-buried-at-the-presidio-national-cemetery.htm']24th Infantry[/URL] had been on the Mexican border since 1916 and remained there. The [URL='http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-buried-at-san-francisco-national-cemetery.htm']10th Cavalry[/URL] was also assigned to patrol along the border. The military justified this action by saying that the country needed a dependable force on the border with [URL='http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/pursuing-pancho-villa.htm']Mexico[/URL]. The 9th Cavalry spent the war years in the [URL='http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/the-philippine-insurrectiothe-philippine-war-a-conflict-of-consciencen-a-war-of-controversy.htm']Philippines[/URL] [URL='http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/footnotes.htm'](39)[/URL]. The 25th Infantry was garrisoned in Hawaii."[/QUOTE]
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