# @carnegiemuseumofart on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg1q2hAjInW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75822118-carnegiemuseumofart-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b7aa3ee639.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-03-27T19:35:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Carnegie Museum of Art (@carnegiemuseumofart) — https://gondola.cc/carnegiemuseumofart

## Caption

“The day that I was drafted in 1945, I go down there to the draft board, and you’re waiting to get assigned to a unit in the military, and they’ve got you all lined up, and they say, ‘This guy, you go to the Navy. This one to Marines. This one to the Army.’ I was literally praying, ‘Please don’t let me go to the Navy,’ because the only thing you could be in the Navy was a cook. And a server. For a guy who comes in the military expecting to defend his country, here you are, you’re serving dinner to these officers, and they weren’t always very nice. But the feeling of the Navy was, that was the only thing you were capable of doing.” -Master Sergeant Eugene Boyer Jr.
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During World War II, Charles “Teenie” Harris documented thousands of African American soldiers who fought for a nation that didn’t always fight for them. Separated by years of Army service, Master Sergeant Eugene Boyer Jr. and former Staff Sergeant Lance A. Woods have selected 25 Harris images that speak to their experiences—the honor of military service, and the sacrifices that the families of service members make. #teenietuesday #cmoacollects

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teenietuesday, cmoacollects

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