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ABSURD IS THE WORD!

Anyone with an interest in the American Civil War

Who fought where and when, and what for...

Will know of the Massachusetts Fifty Fourth

A regiment that fought and showed its worth.

Strange that BBC online made no mention -

In the circumstances a very curious abstention -

Of the BLM daubing of its famous US memorial!

My thoughts on that are inquisitorial..

Just what was it that saw that lack

When The 54th was famously black?

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Of the BLM daubing of its US Memorial

◄ QUESTION

FOOT, FOOT, FOOTSIE! ►

Comments

Philipos

Sun 21st Jun 2020 18:25

There was a WW2 Black American air pilot wing as well I seem to remember MC, as I am sure other US Black military units too. The isolationist impact of Novo thwarts rationalism in some, although I am horrified with what happened with Police actions recently in the USA. Unforgivable.

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 19th Jun 2020 20:21

The Oscar winning film "Glory" gave the world the story of how the
regiment and its colonel Robert Gould-Shaw found their place in
American history. The disfigurement of their Boston memorial (used
as the background for the film's title sequence) was utterly grotesque. ???

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