Ohio Honors Black WWII Heroes with New Holiday
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Ohio introduces new state holiday, Six Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-Eight Day, honoring all-Black female army unit from WWII. The Six Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only such group to serve overseas, handled mail for U.S. troops, boosting morale. The first celebration of the new holiday took place at Charity Adams Earley Academy in Dayton, with students learning about the battalions history and writing postcards to Ohio veterans.
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