But that gave us lots of opportunity to talk to people. This man fought as a Buffalo Soldier in Italy during WW II and he was out here selling his book about this adventures. Check for the video in the next post.
I guess their sign says it all. But no one to talk to yet.
There was a breeze lifting the flag at the Veteran's Memorial flag pole.
So, this is a Juneteenth Celebration. I'm glad the APD have figured out this is a good place to recruit non-white police officers. But maybe it would be nice to have at least one African-American officer along. Now, I wasn't there long, so maybe there were other officers at other times whom I didn't get to see.
Things were still quiet. At this point the only music came from stereos.
I found the woman working this booth a little later and I'll post a short video in the next post. She's working to help women veterans to get benefits to assist them with sexual assault related problems. Right now, she said, neither the military nor the VA take these issues seriously - "they don't want to hurt the excellent careers of the men accused" - and thus women aren't getting treatment for the resulting physical and mental problems.
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