Tag: Marines
The VA in Birmingham serves more than 65,000 veterans from 24...
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For the Birmingham Times
Ervin Swain sat on a blue bench outside the fourth-floor elevator in the parking deck of the Birmingham...
Vet who served with pioneering 1st black Marines dies at 89
By Russ Bynum
Associated Press
A Georgia man who served among the first black U.S. Marines during World War II died Tuesday just a few years...
Memorial to 1st Black Marines Dedicated at Camp Lejeune
By Martha Waggoner
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. -- At the dedication of a memorial Friday honoring the first black U.S. Marines, John Spencer imagined his mind...
