Grave of Corporal Freddie Stowers recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor

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No Medals of Honor were awarded to Black soldiers for heroism in World War I. This was finally corrected in 1991 when President George Bush presented a posthumous award to the sisters of South Carolina's Freddie Stowers

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Location: American Meuse Argonne Cemetery Romagne-sous-Montfaucon France
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