Sergeant Sherman Felton Armstrong Sergeant Sherman Felton Armstrong was born on March 25, 1949, in Poteau' Those who knew him rarely used his full name. To them he was Bo, a young man whose presence carried an easy warmth. He grew up in the simplicity of Poteau life, surrounded by siblings who would later become the keepers of his memory. Before he ever put on a uniform, he married Barbara K. Armstrong and began building the life he expected to return to. When the draft noti

Floyd "Jelly" Gardner Floyd Gardner spent his first fourteen years on Orange Street in Russellville. The road later became South Jonesboro Avenue . His parents, Alec Floyd Gardner and Josie Smith Gardner, raised him and his younger sister Annie in a segregated town of fewer than four thousand residents. His father labored on farms along the Arkansas River Valley. The family home stood in a neighborhood where open lots doubled as ball fields for Black children and adults. Gard