Unlike the Han people, who have traditionally preferred to bury their dead at times and in locations they consider auspicious, when a Sirayan died his or her body was first preserved by smoking, the buried under the floor of the family home.

But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied.

As early as February 1943, the spratmo' around Tuskegee was that the 99th was to be sent to the North African theater. There had been other rumors.

I just broke into tears while talking to my mom.