{"id":20267,"date":"2026-07-31T00:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=20267"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:44:45","slug":"buffalo-soldier-flag-raised-at-government-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/buffalo-soldier-flag-raised-at-government-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Soldier Flag Raised at Government Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n

July 28 is Buffalo Soldiers Day in Ohio, as per an order signed by Governor Mike DeWine in 2022. Toledo\u2019s Buffalo Soldiers celebrate the day every year but they do a lot more than simply celebrate special occasions. They have been, for quite a while now, a positive force in this community, working with youth, with seniors and focusing on issues such as gun violence prevention and working cooperatively with law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n

The Lucas County Commissioners raised the Buffalo Soldiers\u2019 flag at Government Center once again this year on Wednesday, July 22, to honor their work in the community and the Buffalo Soldiers responded in kind by thanking the commissioners for their support of that work and presenting them with memorabilia such as Buffalo Soldiers\u2019 shirts and a plaque of recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Buffalo Soldiers do some amazing work,\u201d said Lisa Sobecki, president of the Lucas County Board of Commissioners as she opened the ceremony. \u201cThey have an incredible impact on our community.<\/p>\n

Sobecki recounted briefly the history of the Buffalo Soldiers noting that they began in 1866 as the first all-Black cavalry regiment and \u201cserved with honor, courage and discipline \u2026 our Buffalo Soldiers in Toledo also serve with honor, courage and discipline each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Earl Mack presents Buffalo Soldiers shirts to Commissioners Lisa Sobecki and Pete Gerken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She noted that the original soldiers \u201cserved a country that did not yet grant them full equality, [yet] they upheld our shared ideas of service and sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commissioner Pete Gerken added that the original soldiers were \u201ccommissioned to serve a country that didn\u2019t recognize their status right after the Civil War.\u201d Today, said Gerken, the Toledo soldiers \u201cgive youth an opportunity to engage with the community,\u201d as he spoke of the very recent activities the local group has undertaken \u2013 such as the Camp Wiakonda youth event the soldiers held two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of community service,\u201d said Earl Mack, post commander of the Toledo unit. \u201cBut we fly under the radar. But we cannot do this work without the support of our political leaders,\u201d he added as he and Fred LeFebvre, the unit\u2019s public information officer, presented the token of appreciation to the commissioner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t wait around to be asked, when we see a need, we try to fulfill that need,\u201d added LeFebvre summing up the approach of these modern local Buffalo Soldiers.<\/p>\n

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The Truth Staff July 28 is Buffalo Soldiers Day in Ohio, as per an order signed by Governor Mike DeWine in 2022. Toledo\u2019s Buffalo Soldiers celebrate the day every year but they do a lot more than simply celebrate special occasions. They have been, for quite a while now, a positive force in this community, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[358],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20272,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions\/20272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}