![Thinking about true freedom fighters who will go unheralded on this veteran’s day:
‘“All we know is that he arrived with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of American volunteers and that he died in the battle at Brunete [in July 1937],” said Sergi Centelles, whose father, Agustí, took the picture.
The soldier is one of more than 90 African-Americans who volunteered to defend Spain’s elected Republican government from a 1936 rightwing military uprising that sparked a three-year civil war.’
The Spanish government initiated a search to identify this soldier with plans to present the portrait to President Obama upon his next official visit…
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Thinking about true freedom fighters who will go unheralded on this veteran’s day:
‘“All we know is that he arrived with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of American volunteers and that he died in the battle at Brunete [in July 1937],” said Sergi Centelles, whose father, AgustÃ, took the picture.
The soldier is one of more than 90 African-Americans who volunteered to defend Spain’s elected Republican government from a 1936 rightwing military uprising that sparked a three-year civil war.’
The Spanish government initiated a search to identify this soldier with plans to present the portrait to President Obama upon his next official visit…
