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An article in a Black newspaper that describes how thousands of Black soldiers and others from marginalized groups, including LGBTQ people, were denied GI benefits after returning from World War II

“Marine Corporal Jeremy Dobbins returned to Dayton, Ohio, from duty in Afghanistan with an 80% disability rating and issues with anger. Trained in service to others, veterans often resist the idea that they themselves need help and they have difficulty with sharing their war experiences with family and friends. An oral history project at Wright State University is giving Jeremy and other young veterans a chance to help older veterans recover their stories of war, and to come to terms with their own.”

Juni teaches her friend Michael all she knows about the first Memorial Day—the day when thousands of black people marched to remember their loved ones who had died in the Civil War.