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Secretary Salazar Hails Establishment of Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

WILBERFORCE, OH–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013.  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, representatives from the National Park Foundation and the Trust for Public Land, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members and local officials and community members to celebrate the establishment of the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument as the country’s 401st national park. The site commemorates Colonel Charles Young, a distinguished African American army officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who was the third African American to graduate from West Point and the first to achieve the rank of colonel.

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