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The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times
Mark Bowden
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The battle of Mogadishu in early October 1993 shocked most Americans. U.S. forces had been deployed to Somalia to support a U.N. humanitarian mission and had helped end a famine, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Ten months later, there was pitched street fighting in Mogadishu, 18 dead American soldiers, more than a thousand Somali casualties and the horror, replayed over and over on TV, of American bodies being dragged through the streets by angry mobs.
The United States had just emerged from victory in the Cold War and the swift triumph of Desert Storm and had, perhaps, an unrealistic faith in its military potency. President Bill Clinton expressed this when he asked his staff, “How could this happen?” The battle ended the U.S. military mission and caused the collapse of the U.N.’s effort. Somalia fell back into anarchy. It was a s
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Excerpt from an earlier statement by William Lloyd Garrison: "I tell the American slaveholder that he shall not have silence..." Written below the same passage typed. Another typewritten passage on verso.
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Copy of the poem "Freedom of the Mind," by William Lloyd Garrison: "High walls and huge the body may confine..."
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Autograph of William Lloyd Garrison on the clipped part of a handbill.
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Note from William Lloyd Garrison to Francis Jackson Garrison written on a memorandum form of H. O. Houghton & Company, Boston: "I find I have blundered, and left at home the revised and corrected proof that I should have brought with me. So we must leave the matter till you come home to-night." (entire)
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Note from William Lloyd Garrison to Francis Jackson Garrison: "With Father's best wishes. For Frank."
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Note from William Lloyd Garrison to Francis Jackson Garrison to turn off the water and fill the sitti
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By Reuben Keith Green
The hidden story of the U.S. Navy’s first Black commissioned officer spans five decades, three continents, two world wars, two wives from different countries, and one hell of a journey for an Indiana farm boy. For mutual convenience, both he and the United States Navy pretended that he wasn’t Black. This story had almost been erased from history until the determined efforts of one of his extended relatives, Jeff Giltz of Hobart, Indiana, brought it to light.1
From before World War I until after World War II, leaders in the U. S. government and Navy would make decisions affecting the composition of enlisted ranks for more than a century and that still echo in officer demographics today. Memories of maelstroms past reverberate in today’s discussions regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), affirmative action in the military academies, meritocracy over so-called “DEI Hires,” who is and is not Black, and in renaming – or not – bases and ships that honor relics of America’s discriminatory and exclusionary past. Before Doris “Dorie” Mille
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