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From One Service to Another: A Lifetime of Showing Up

An American Legion post in Pontiac was nearing the end of its life when Black veterans helped give it a future. Membership had dwindled. The building was close to being boarded up, according to Joe Carr, the commander who now leads Cook-Nelson Post 20. Around 1976 or 1977, he recalled,...

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