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Kuwento Kuwento|Pinoy Pod 41
Part Two - Buffalo Soldiers returned... Episode
Pinoy Pod 41Part Two - Buffalo Soldiers returned to Bay Area with Filipino wives, customsVangie Canonizado Buell's memoir, "25 Chickens and a Pig for a Bride," tackled a little known chapter in the histories of the United States and the Philippines: The thousands of African Americans, known as Buffalo Soldiers, who served in the war between the two countries.Buell's grandfather, Ernest Stokes, came to identify with the Filipinos so much that he decided to stay in the Philippines where he started a family.In Part 2 of our interview with Vangie Buell, she talks about how Ernest Stokes returned to the United States, where he started a new life with his Filipino wife in West Oakland.MORE ON PINOY POD AT SFGATE.COM.LISTEN/PAKINGGAN
[ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:36:19 -0600 ]
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