"No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."
~ Zora Neale Hurston

Red, White, Blue & Black: A History of Blacks in the Armed Services | Chicago, IL

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The call to serve one’s country has always been a special significance in conferring the highest claim of citizenship and patriotic responsibility. The irony however, for the more than 14 million black men and women who have served in the armed forces of the United States, the right to serve, fight and die for America [...]