Students one of African Americans to be able to move higher in the military, and they fought for the establishment of the first africanamerican training camp. They continued their support of the military in the years following. Tell me about how their willingness to participate within the government how it is perceived by the government. The government was hesitant, because they still had this idea that africanamericans were not good for the military that africanamericans were somehow cowardly they still question whether they were hesitant. Students were very supportive. Letter in the book that they wrote at the start of world war i where they said well for the devotion to our country to hereby offer ourselves in mind body and state. Whatever use you can make of us and maintain integrity in a high position among the nation of the world. They wrote this because they wanted to show their support of country is for the military and to show that they were good citizens and they deserve equal rights. Tell me about the other things that happened on campus in terms of the military suffering. One of the more interesting that things that happen on campus they turned the campus over to the War Department in 1918 for training. If youve ever been to this campus there are gates around the campus and they actually lock the gate. They did military training and service on the camp. Talk to me about the colleges and universities. This was the first training programs. After that others started to create training programs. Over the years ago way back. Mentioned they trained them so they would have higher rankings. They persisted in the years even following the creation of the training. Throughout the years this is the biggest thing that they had to make. How about the connection . One thing that people dont really know is a lot of of them started their training because they had a Student Army Training unit. They trained in howard and they left howard and trained. In the book i have a list of alumni in the back. A lot of people dont really know about connection, but its there. Theres a big connection. I know you have titles among other titles, tell me about the collection of letters. As a relates to their army service can you share stories . Sure, dorothy who is the founder of the research center, she has the sites to collect letters while they are overseas so she traveled the campus to have your students with you from overseas. Should a massive collection over 100 letters. She kept it, and those are the ones that i steer in the book. They tell a great story about military service. Even though women couldnt serve he talks about how happy she was to be there to help the fellowship. And seeing their eyes light up. What year was that . I was a 1942. You soldiers right some talked about the racism they experience and some talked about the lack of racism they experienced. He got to go to a lot of following parties. He was so happy that he got to go to parties and sit at tables with bob hope, and how he loved the military. A lot of different stories talks about the interesting dynamics. Thank you, thank you so much