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Recruiting Posters Featuring African-Americans

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Pappacoda, Elisha. (November 10, 2005). "Special Ops Marines Ran 560 Miles to Celebrate Corps' 200th Birthday." The Villages Daily Sun. Retrieved November 10, 2005 from the World Wide Web at http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2005/11/10/news/news02.txt.

An article detailing a 560-mile marathon to commemorate the Marine Corps' bicentennial reveals that:

"the marathon was the brainchild of Maj. Jim Capers, a sharecropper's son who climbed through the ranks from private to commander of 2nd Force Recon. A Vietnam War hero, Capers was the first African-American featured on a military recruiting poster.

'He always had the greatest respect of his men,' Bates [Navy SEAL and Vietnam War veteran] said. 'His men would go to hell and back with him because he'd bring them back.'"
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