[El Gato]

Here's one of the Finest, maybe not FR's Finest, the Finest none the less.

(Also posted at The FReeper Canteen)

Here's a trooper who's passed on to his reward. And boy did he have to wait a long time.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485423/posts

1st Sergeant Mark Matthews, Oldest Buffalo Soldier dies at 111

RIP Top Soldier.

[DollyCali]

thanks.. always sad when one of the saints goes marching home

[LadyX]

Thank you for bringing this toour attention, El Gato, and providing a link to the article.

"The Buffalo Soldiers won 20 Medals of Honor, more than any other regiment. They also helped lay hundreds of miles of roads and telegraph lines, protected stagecoaches, were involved in the military actions against the Apache chiefs Victorio and Geronimo and fought bravely in Cuba at the side of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War."

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It says he enlisted at age 16, and also participated in WWII in his 40's, on Saipan in the Pacific.

We in America owe so much to so many selfless persons - -