What's the power of beauty on the human spirit?  Can a place be so beautiful that when we give ourselves over to that beauty we lose a part of ourselves?  On a routine patrol Sgt. Boman encounters such a place.

Taken at Thousand Island Lake

"A Buffalo Soldier Speaks" an audio podcast featuring National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson as Sergeant Elizy Boman, Troop "K", Ninth U.S. Cavalry, who was dispatched to Yosemite National Park in 1903 and served there through 1904.

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Sgt. Boman talks about Time as its own sort of geography, that in the Sierra Nevada you can get lost in the when, the here and now, as easily as taking a wrong turn in the mountains.

Time in Yosemite

Sgt. Boman�s final thoughts on fighting that war for freedom, for true emancipation.

On Two Fronts III

Sgt. Boman continues this conversation about colored men who serve in the military, and their fight for freedoms that are elusive once they return from the battlefield.

On Two Fronts II

Sgt. Boman tells of an encounter in Jerseydale that prompts him to consider some of the differences between being a colored soldier versus a white soldier in a time of war.

On Two Fronts

Sgt. Boman reflects on his status as a sergeant in the Ninth Cavalry and the meaning in his own life of the word �power�.

Taken at Thousand Island Lake

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