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"This book provides the reader with a vivid portrait of African American soldiers who carried the flag of freedom and equality and how they reshaped the very definition of courage under fire during some of the most harrowing moments in the United States military past"--

This essay adds to the discourses of African American history, military history, and autobiography that focus on the process of collective memory telling in black families in the latter half of the twentieth century. By exploring an African American family's postwar recollection of the homicide of a black soldier during the SecondWorldWar, this essay examines the relationship between memory and history. It reconstructs how the parameters ofWorldWar II shaped the wartime experiences of African American servicemen and their families'memory of the "Good War" in a period of national forgetting. By exploring the episodes of memory telling among black family members of those who stood in the ranks of America's armed forces during World War II, the importance of investigating aspects of the tension between memory and history in African American culture in the twentieth century can be discerned.