Posthumously

[Jonathan Lighter]

Uncle Henry's book, _The Colored Cadet at West Point_ contains a slang glossary, plundered of course by HDAS.

  So he and Wilson must be related.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Yes, I do.

BTW, "Uncle Henry" Flipper was a distant relative of mine. His
great-grandnephew and my first cousin, Carl Flipper III, died suddenly
of myocardial cancer a few months ago.

-Wilson

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
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> The following appeared in today's Almanac in the Chicago Tribune:
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> In 1999, President Bill Clinton posthumously pardoned Henry Flipper,
> the first black graduate of West Point, whose military career was
> tarnished by a racially motivated discharge.
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> Does anyone else get a first reading in which the pardon occurred
> after Clinton's death?
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> Barbara
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> Barbara Need
> UChicago
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