Show Notes
Amid Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's changes to the US military, we thought it would be a good time to revist our April conversation with Will Haygood about the turbulent history of Black American soldiers. Wil's book The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home is out now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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