Episode 85 - The Buffalo Soldiers

The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery - Un pódcast de Jennie Johnson & Dianne Hartshorn - Jueves

Send us a textJust in time for Memorial Day, Jennie and Dianne are joined by special guest Andrew Bell, a former Sergeant-Major in the US Army and a veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam wars and a former Buffalo Soldier reenactor. Andrew shares not only the history of the Buffalo Soldiers and who they were, but how their nearly forgotten story was brought back to life in the 1960s. These fighting men represented the first Black professional soldiers in a peacetime army. As these...

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