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Sean Sheppard received the prestigious San Diego Chapter Buffalo Soldiers Honorary Membership on June 11, 2011 in honor of his outstanding service within the veteran community through his non-profit organization, EMBRACE. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) July 03, 2011 In 1866 two U.S. Army African American regiments were formed; the 9th and 10th cavalries. Members of these two cavalry units and two all-black infantry regiments, the 24th and 25th, came to be called Buffalo Soldiers. By 1867, the...
By DUANE DUDEK Journal Sentinel film critic "Miracle at St. Anna" is Spike Lee's film but James McBride's story. As he did with the acclaimed memoir "The Color of Water," about being the black son of a white Jewish mother, McBride has fashioned a narrative, this time fictional, from a personal experience. "Miracle at St. Anna" is about members of the all African- American 92nd Infantry Division -- called Buffalo Soldiers -- who served in Italy during World War II. One of them was McBride's...
By Claudia Puig Miracle at St. Anna aspires to be epic, but mostly it's just unfocused, sprawling and badly in need of editing. Spike Lee's adaptation of James McBride's novel about four black soldiers during World War II is passionate but hampered by an inconsistent tone, dull and overlong stretches, cliched dialogue and a derivative story. At times it calls to mind Saving Private Ryan, other times Flags of our Fathers and Life Is Beautiful. But it's never as good as any of those films....
By Glenn Whipp Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna'' is many things -- a World War II movie, a murder mystery, a magical mystical tour as seen through the prism of Italian neorealist movies like "The Bicycle Thief.'' You could call the film "Spike's Voyage to Italy'' and not be far off the mark. But the movie's main reason for being can be found in a scene that takes place in its opening moments. An old man, a decorated war veteran as we can see from mementos around his apartment, watches the...
