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2018 Military Appreciation Weekend
180505-F-YQ806-1057.JPG Photo By: Johnny Saldivar

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Vincent Porter, Bexar County 9th Cavalry Buffalo Association member, gives a history lesson on African-American Buffalo soldiers equipment utilized during their military service May 5 during the Military Appreciation Weekend at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The soldiers were members of the all-black U.S. Army units formed by Congress in 1866 after the end of the Civil War, giving former slaves, freedmen and African-American Civil War veterans an opportunity to serve.


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