Buffalo Soldier gets Arlington burial after 100 years

[babylonsister]

Buffalo Soldier gets Arlington burial after 100 years
By Bob Kovach


Cpl. Isaiah Mays was awarded the Medal of Honor after being wounded in an ambush in 1889.


ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) -- It was a journey that took more than a hundred years.

Missing for decades, the remains of Cpl. Isaiah Mays, a Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, were laid to rest Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.

Paying respects were African-American veterans, U.S. Army soldiers and those who rode for days as part of a motorcycle escort -- members of the Missing in America Project, who traveled from as far away as California and Arizona at their own expense to make sure Mays got a proper burial.

None was a relative but they consider themselves his brothers.

They stood shoulder to shoulder in an older section of the cemetery, surrounded by the graves of veterans from wars long ago. Some came in Army dress blue uniforms. Others wore uniforms like those worn by the Buffalo Soldiers, who served in the legendary all-black Army units formed after the Civil War.

The crowd stood witness as a color guard folded the American flag and saluted when three rifle volleys pierced the air. A bugler, surrounded by the graves of other fallen heroes, played taps.

William McCurtis, the regimental sergeant major of a Buffalo Soldier group, perhaps voiced the sentiment of everyone who came: "One more out of 6,000 has his day of recognition. We need to get the rest recognized."

Mays was born a slave in Virginia in 1858 but spent most of his life west of the Mississippi, joining the famed Buffalo Soldiers as the black cavalry and infantry troops fought in the frontier Indian Wars.

In 1889, he was part of a small detachment assigned to protect a U.S. Army pay wagon, which was caught in an ambush by a band of bandits. A gunfight ensued and almost all the soldiers were wounded or killed. Mays was shot in both legs. The bandits made off with $29,000 in gold coins.

Despite his wounds, Mays managed to walk and crawl two miles to a ranch to seek help. He was awarded a Medal of Honor on February 15, 1890.

more...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/29/missing.soldier.buried/index.html

[shadowknows69]

1. From Mr. Marley

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPEFyAbwqE>


Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta:
There was a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

I mean it, when I analyze the stench -
To me it makes a lot of sense:
How the Dreadlock Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier,
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta -
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.

If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldn't have to ask me,
Who the 'eck do I think I am.

I'm just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America.

Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Buffalo Soldier troddin' through the land, wo-ho-ooh!
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand,
Troddin' through the land, yea-hea, yea-ea.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America;
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean.

Singing, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!

Troddin' through San Juan in the arms of America;
Troddin' through Jamaica, a Buffalo Soldier# -
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival:
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta.

Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!

[malaise]

3. The Marleys remove UTube videos

here's a clip from the official page
http://web.bobmarley.com/catalogue/index.jsp?catpage=singles

[shadowknows69]

4. Well apparently they didn't get that one.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Didn't get this one either

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNsbrBpT1O4

The one you posted cannot be viewed in the UK.

[malaise]

6. Couldn't see your own n/t

[dipsydoodle]

7. They must seperating across different countries.

The user who posted it is this one :http://www.youtube.com/user/BVMRastaTV not sure where they're based - might be the Brazilian one ?

Off topic - check this out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYin-_uyj6c Wicked or what ? Best of both worlds - Reggae and Doo Wop.

[shadowknows69]

8. That's either brilliant or disturbing. Not sure I've decided yet. lol.

[dipsydoodle]

11. It's brilliant if ...............

you like Doo Wop, which I do especially given I can recall all of the original tracks being released in the fifties and also like Reggae and Ska . It also helps if can dance to the Reggae rhythm, which broadly speaking is a reversed swing shuffle beat, as easy as breathing - which I can...lol.

:hi:

[malaise]

2. Bob Marley did a lot to publicize the plight of the Buffalo Soldiers

http://www.examiner.com/x-1222-SF-Rock-Music-Examiner~y2009m1d30-More-than-words-Bob-Marley--a-true-soldier

[Demoiselle]

9. That photograph of those beautiful men makes me teary. (eom)

[sarge43]

10. Rest in peace, soldier.

:patriot:

[dipsydoodle]

12. Shame we can only recommend once

:thumbsup:

[malaise]

13. Shame that it sank like a stone

Kick

[dipsydoodle]

23. Didn't really

as you may have noticed. I still find it odd you couldn't use that link. I just hit it to confirm it hadn't corrupted and it worked jsut fine.

[Fire1]

14. K&R

[omega minimo]

15. Damn straight

:patriot: kR

[Interloper]

16. Where was he buried before?

Was he buried at Fort Huachuca, AZ?

[Gemini Cat]

17. Read the article at the link.

That will answer your question.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

18. Tool for Whitey participates in genocide against red brothers, wins . . .

Medal of Honor and plot in Arlington National Cemetery. WTF!

"Mays was born a slave in Virginia in 1858 but spent most of his life west of the Mississippi, joining the famed Buffalo Soldiers as the black cavalry and infantry troops fought in the frontier Indian Wars."


“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
--Jon Stewart

[LeftyMom]

19. Two points:

1. Pitting one oppressed group against another is traditionally American as apple pie.

2. Who the fuck says "whitey"?

[asteroid2003QQ47]

20. re: pt.2. You have a better descriptive term?

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

[LeftyMom]

21. Surely you can think of something that, if not less obviously racist, is at least less cartoonishly

dated.

I mean really, "whitey"?

[asteroid2003QQ47]

22. Would "creamy pink/peach" make you nitpicking ageists happy?

"Surely you can think of something that, if not less obviously racist, is at least less cartoonishly dated."
You proudly exhibit some interesting contradictory sensitivities!

The Wounded Knee Massacre - December 1890 (52 yrs. before I was born)

The massacre at Wounded Knee is considered the last battle between white soldiers and Native Americans .

http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081221003102AA0JF1P

[BlooInBloo]

24. For sure it's too bad that white folks pitted black folks against Native Americans....

Just like it's too bad you're so fucking shitty.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

25. Save your crocodile tears. You make "kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice" Chivington

proud!

Sand Creek Massacre

"A three-old Indian toddler, perfectly naked, toddled out toward the dry creek bed. Three troopers dismounted some seventy yards from the child, and assumed the cavalry kneeling position for fire. One carbine shot hit the sand at the child's feet. Let me try... the second trooper demanded. He also missed. Hell, spat the third trooper, as he raised his carbine and fired. The child dropped in the sand. One nit that would never become lice.



By late afternoon the battle was over, and *Col.* Chivington would receive a hero's welcome in Denver. The Rocky Mountain News reported ...all Cheyenne chiefs, Black Kettle, White Antelope, Little Robe, Left Hand, Knock Knee, and One Eye were killed. In no single battle in North America, we believe, have so many Indians been slain. Colorado soldiers have again covered themselves with glory. The news account, obviously erroneous, would also prove to be disingenuous."

http://www.manataka.org/page161.html