The life of America's Buffalo Soldiers was a mission of courage and valor. They fought their battles bravely and fiercely; despite the inferior supplies they were given. Their legacy is one of desire, dedication and discipline.

Somewhere along the journey of life our youth stopped fighting the enemy and started killing themselves with drugs, jails and despair. They are dying by the hundreds every day and killing innocent women, children and families along the way. Our young men and women are struggling to survive the inferior supply of education, jobs and housing that has become their legacy.

It is ABSRA's vision that we teach our youth that the legacy of America's Buffalo Soldiers; bravery, courage and victory, is their legacy, despite the hardships they have faced. Jailings, beatings, lost love and more jailings, almost passes human understanding how a people can be so socially dispossessed and yet artistically esteemed, so degraded and yet culturally influential, so ostracized and yet a dominant editorial force in American Life.

America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association, 9^th & 10^th Cavalry, 24^th & 25^th Infantry is a beginning. America's youth are running wild like undomesticated horses on the plains. Before wild horses can ever be of real service, you must corral and saddlebreak them or they will continue to run astray.

CFL II

June 1995