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Taken outside the church: Irma Biondi left, Solace Wales right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578673749942-GNMQY04E4JAMHMU622Z2/Solace%26McCall++2_26_97++1200+2.jpeg Gallery | commemorative events - Solace & McCall 12.26.97 On the commemoration of the battle 12/26/97 the author did a reading to introduce the community to Arlene Fox (the hero’s widow) and several veterans who would be visiting the village. The American Console General to Florence, Louis McCall (shown to the left in the photo) attended. The author is to his right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578674923334-LZV1FFYYL7A97TR3VG8X/Solace%2Breading%2B12_26_98%2B%2B1200.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Solace Wales reading 12.26.98 On 12/26/98, the author reminds community leaders of the significance of the dream Arlene Fox had at the time of the battle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578673752448-PDIVOBPBMOG3MG83DY88/Solace+2000+photo.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Solace Wales reads Arlene Fox’s letter 7.16.2000 At the honoring of Lt John Fox and his fellow soldiers in Sommocolonia on 7/16/2000, the author reads the Italian translation of Arlene Fox’s letter of thanks to the community. Left of her is Morgan Charles, John and Arlene Fox’s grandson, right of her is Albert Burke, President of the 92nd Buffalo Div Veterans Association, Dr. Enrico Gonnella, President of the Sommocolonia La Rocca committee and Prof. Umberto Sereni, mayor of Barga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578674629950-VXZ3YH1GR2K9DKHRDAIG/10_191226_guido_mencari_sommocolonia_solace_wales_braided_in_fire-358_WEB.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Gathering commemorating the 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia 12.26.2019 Solace Wales reading on 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia 12.26.2019 Author Solace Wales reading during commemorative events marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578674300958-APWEN3V6HU76CNJQT3MB/11_191226_guido_mencari_sommocolonia_solace_wales_braided_in_fire-387_WEB.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Solace Wales reading on 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia 12.26.2019 Author Solace Wales reading during commemorative events marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578687658509-V5GE7W1C1Y7CEZU4DOT0/14_191226_guido_mencari_sommocolonia_solace_wales_braided_in_fire-443_WEB.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Gaia Biagioni reading 12.26.2019 Actress Gaia Biagioni of Barga offered to read the Prologue of Braided in Fire for that portion of the reading; a part of the 75th anniversary events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578674778036-27KZ3JR6GP0XVNKYWVF5/15_191226_guido_mencari_sommocolonia_solace_wales_braided_in_fire-413_WEB.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia 12.26.2019 Attendees of the commemorative events marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578674788296-A7OSX4DRAUTK6TXGFWHY/18_191226_guido_mencari_sommocolonia_solace_wales_braided_in_fire-773_WEB.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Author with 75th anniversary attendees 12.26.2019 To the right of the author Solace Wales is Monsignore Stefano Serafini of the Barga Cathedral. To the far left, Anna Rosiello, to the far right Maria Grazia Rosiello. The sisters are from the Vincenti family who donated the land & tower ruin for Sommocolonia’s La Rocca alla Pace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1578674788877-JW2AZ9KY8XVS33SKDK1T/19_191226_guido_mencari_sommocolonia_solace_wales_braided_in_fire-606_WEB.jpg Gallery | commemorative events - Solace Wales & Sindaca Caterina Campani 12.26.2019 The author with Sindaca Caterina Campani, the mayor of Barga, during commemorative events marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Sommocolonia. https://braidedinfire.com/gallery-maps daily 0.75 2020-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580307465381-MHUI9615M39TS5EPJ4O3/1_Maps-new-BRAIDED_ADJ2.jpg Gallery | maps - Map I ■ September 1944 Allied and Axis positions on the western side of the Gothic Line, September 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580307465381-MHUI9615M39TS5EPJ4O3/1_Maps-new-BRAIDED_ADJ2.jpg Gallery | maps - Map I ■ September 1944 Allied and Axis positions on the western side of the Gothic Line, September 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580307733991-3J7LY2JP6YPS4OM5OMXR/BraidedInFire_Map2_Dec-25-1944-ADJ.jpg Gallery | maps - Map II ■ December 25, 1944 Allied and Axis positions on the western side of the Gothic Line — December 25, 1944, the day before the battle of Sommocolonia chronicled in Braided in Fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580230057093-E74TKSCF1US0KU15IDED/BraidedInFire_Map1_Sept-1944.jpg Gallery | maps - Map I ■ September 1944 Allied and Axis positions on the western side of the Gothic Line, September 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580248409786-JPY2CGX49ZFTY4JZ8Q8P/BraidedInFire_Map3_Wintergewitter-Dec-26-1944.jpg Gallery | maps - Map III ■ Wintergewitter | December 26, 1944 Wintergewitter | Allied and Axis positions on December 26, 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580229881065-MLKOPVJT7QHWKG5BNVZ0/BraidedInFire_Map1_Sept-1944.jpg Gallery | maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1580319031765-0TE9R58RRKV4KNUKVMQA/BraidedInFire_Map4_Sommocolonia-Dec-26-1944.jpg Gallery | maps - Map IV ■ December 26, 1944 attack on Sommocolonia The German attack on the village of Sommocolonia, December 26, 1944. Dwellings of villagers documented in Braided in Fire are noted. https://braidedinfire.com/gallery-naming-la-mulattiera daily 0.75 2020-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581108118970-J8FV4SJA25GCWMTLH0KK/51+Joseph+Hairston+with+African+re-enactors.jpg Gallery | Naming La Mulattiera - Veteran Joseph Hairston with African re-enactors Only one person in this photo is truly a Buffalo Soldier and Ret. Captain Hairston is not in uniform. The Africans were enlisted for this re-enactment by ‘the Cultural Assoc. for the 92nd Division’ of Sarzana, a city north of Barga which Buffalo Soldiers liberated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581108118970-J8FV4SJA25GCWMTLH0KK/51+Joseph+Hairston+with+African+re-enactors.jpg Gallery | Naming La Mulattiera - Veteran Joseph Hairston with African re-enactors Only one person in this photo is truly a Buffalo Soldier and Ret. Captain Hairston is not in uniform. The Africans were enlisted for this re-enactment by ‘the Cultural Assoc. for the 92nd Division’ of Sarzana, a city north of Barga which Buffalo Soldiers liberated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581108122033-XUVFJL8JJCJKV9902T81/52+WWII+American+Army+jeeps+in+Sommocolonia.jpg Gallery | Naming La Mulattiera - WWII jeeps used in the re-enactment WWII vintage American Army jeeps for the re-enactment in Sommocolonia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581108124565-DPSEXQ9BO37RETZIJDYO/53+crowd+arrives+to+witness+naming+of+la+mulattiera+9%3A5%3A09.jpg Gallery | Naming La Mulattiera - Villagers, visitors & officials arrive for the naming of la mulattiera 9.5.09 The small structure to the right is the village public wash house, which is no longer used. Until it was destroyed in WWII, a large stone arch began where the stone wall to the right ends. It extended to the wall on the left and served as the main entrance to Sommocolonia. https://braidedinfire.com/gallery-interviewees-braided-infire daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581113397813-9SH3AAAWVZ8GOTQIDCCJ/39+Marina+Vincenti+in+her+La+Rocca+garden.jpg Gallery | Interviewees - Marina Vincenti in her La Rocca garden Marina Vincenti in her La Rocca garden. She and her family donated the land to the Comune di Barga for the La Rocca monument/park to peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581113397813-9SH3AAAWVZ8GOTQIDCCJ/39+Marina+Vincenti+in+her+La+Rocca+garden.jpg Gallery | Interviewees - Marina Vincenti in her La Rocca garden Marina Vincenti in her La Rocca garden. She and her family donated the land to the Comune di Barga for the La Rocca monument/park to peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581113534155-A8SAJE11HLS5OC6ZYNR1/40+Anna+Moscardini+in+garden_ADJ.jpg Gallery | Interviewees - Anna Moscardini in her garden Anna Moscardini in her garden with Barga and the Apuane Alps in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581118149412-FG9HGN89OH8T7X9JUZFJ/42+Berto+Biondi+at+80+100.jpeg Gallery | Interviewees - Berto Biondi, 5.5.2005 Berto Biondi, age 80, at the Sommocolonian monument ‘Martyrs of the Resistance’ on May 5, 2005 when there was a ceremony to add a marker for Pippo (Manrico Ducceschi), the XI Zone partisan leader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1600986973941-M591NPDR7Q2D98Z1J0RS/3%252BOtis%252BZachary%252BNov%252B%25252705%252Bat%252B88%252Bby%252Bauthor.jpg Gallery | Interviewees - Otis Zachary at home Otis Zachary at home, age 88. 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The interview took place in Barga on 9/6/09, the day after naming Sommocolonia’s mulattiera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581113236692-90OZZ91NMAL3VP5Y1AUK/45+Arlene+Fox+age+92+with+grandson+Morgan+Charles_ADJ.jpg Gallery | Interviewees - Arlene Fox and Morgan Charles at 9.2011 documentary 'Inside Buffalo', Arlene Fox, age 92, with grandson Morgan Charles at a September 2011 showing in Houston,TX of the documentary “Inside Buffalo” by Fred Kuwornu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581113250720-XSM6HUGIY6LWF1Y5TLPJ/46a+Rothacker+Smith+2+age+96.jpeg Gallery | Interviewees - Rothacker Smith Rothacker Smith, age 96, November 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581113252366-7FISWKK3EXGFI3YXW4FM/47+Frank+H+Cloud+on+his+100th+birthday+10%3A%2719.jpg Gallery | Interviewees - Frank H. Cloud on his 100th birthday Frank H. 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Fox was buried on March 5, 1949 in Arlene’s family plot in Colebrook Cemetery in Whitman, Massachusetts. The decoration of the grave stone was done by the Julio brother still living in Whitman. The Julio family from Whitman vacationed in Sommocolonia where they were moved by Fox’s story and honored his marker in July 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582670563428-300HJ18XJRZXF2WDZ7BO/31+John+Fox+was+buried+at+Coleman+Cemetery+.jpeg Gallery | John Fox markers-honors - Grave stone for Lt. John R. Fox in Whitman, MA John R. Fox was given a proper military burial with 2 overnight honor guards and a full 21-gun salute by ten soldiers, but this didn’t happen in a timely fashion. Bodies remained in temporary plots until the Army personnel was available. Fox was buried on March 5, 1949 in Arlene’s family plot in Colebrook Cemetery in Whitman, Massachusetts. The decoration of the grave stone was done by the Julio brother still living in Whitman. The Julio family from Whitman vacationed in Sommocolonia where they were moved by Fox’s story and honored his marker in July 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582671097716-MQFB51P7009KZJ28AY4O/30sm%2B%2BAmerican%2BLegion%2BPost%2Bnamed%2Bafter%2BLt.%2BJohn%2BFox%2Bin%2BLockland%252C%2BOhio.%2B%2B1200.jpg Gallery | John Fox markers-honors - American Legion Post 631 named for Lt. John Fox American Legion Post 631 named for Lt. John Fox on June 26, 1952 in Lockland, Ohio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582670877251-UO1SGCIVXIRCEH5505IH/30-A+sm+Fox+DSC+ceremony+1982.jpg Gallery | John Fox markers-honors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582670570563-43FHIEJ2GLZJCP87J4J1/32+Fox+monu+marker+w+stone++100.jpeg Gallery | John Fox markers-honors - John Fox’s marker in the Sommocolonia Martiri della Resistenza monument John Fox’s marker was placed in the Sommocolonia—Martiri della Resistenza (Martyrs of the Resistance) monument on December 26th, 1979 (nearly three years before he received any recognition in his own country). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582671236587-VXWVG9TKWGJII6LIIBDV/33sm%2BArlene%2B%2526%2BHamlet%2BDSC%2B1982.jpg Gallery | John Fox markers-honors - Lt John Fox’s DSC (Distinguished Service Cross) presented to Arlene Fox by Major General James Hamlet at Ft. Devens, MA Major General Hamlet presented the DSC (Distinguished Service Cross) citation to Arlene Fox at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts on Armed Forces Day, May 15th, 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582670606453-JT4HKRNQBIRXTDOT0173/01+Arlene+and+Pres+Clinton_sm-website.jpg Gallery | John Fox markers-honors - Arlene Fox with President Clinton, January 13, 1997 Arlene Fox is holding the Medal of Honor which was presented to Lt. John R. Fox by President Clinton on January 13, 1997. https://braidedinfire.com/home-braided-in-fire daily 1.0 2025-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1571076686403-91EJMQPUB6REDRAVDJ2R/SolaceWalesSheets_author.jpeg Home | Braided in Fire Solace Wales Sheets. Author of Braided in Fire. Knox Press. November 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1577047862846-UP4Q7C9UUF70X6YARJ6E/Western+tower+ruin+wall+far+left.jpg Home | Braided in Fire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1571076159415-XYNQS9YJZJZSFVGG0EUC/Braided-cover-design.jpg Home | Braided in Fire - The Book Braided in Fire is the stirring account of the author’s search to understand the drama that unfolded between the Italian peasants and African-American infantrymen of the 366th Infantry Regiment — attached to the celebrated “Buffalo Division” 92nd Infantry — whose lives were lost, or changed irrevocably by a village battle in Tuscany during the Battle of Garfagnana in December of 1944. 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Publication date: January 28, 2020 Language: English ISBN: 9781948496032 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1571076159415-XYNQS9YJZJZSFVGG0EUC/Braided-cover-design.jpg Book | Braided in Fire BRAIDED IN FIRE: Black GIs and Tuscan Villagers on the Gothic Line by Solace Wales. Publisher: Knox Press. Publication date: January 28, 2020 Language: English ISBN: 9781948496032 https://braidedinfire.com/racist-implications-second-92nd-performance-report daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1579881126139-WB4EQU7JRQAZ6EGAWH0Z/111-SC-246367.jpg Racist 92nd Performance Report | Braided in Fire Difficulties of mountain warfare. A wounded Buffalo Soldier is being brought down a 45% mountainside in the vicinity of Sommocolonia on 1/10/45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1579881527003-DB45IOMKBJRZATRGS32A/army.mil-88774-2011-01-10-100103.jpg Racist 92nd Performance Report | Braided in Fire 598th Field Artillery before the 366th Cannon Company was attached to this unit. https://braidedinfire.com/long-notes-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://braidedinfire.com/bibliography-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2021-06-15 https://braidedinfire.com/excerpt-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1576702984232-OAZT95NFG59P4QV3UAN0/Braided-cover-design.jpg Excerpt | Braided in Fire Read an excerpt from Braided in Fire: Black GIs and Tuscan Villagers on the Gothic Line, published by Knox Press, January 2020. ISBN ISBN: 9781948496032 https://braidedinfire.com/the-dead-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1576606732455-R06P2FPGHRRVX3BWNQFQ/C-366th-Infantry_Ft-Devens_1942.jpg The Dead | Braided in Fire The 366th Infantry Regiment, Ft. Devens, MA, 1942. Lt. John Fox is circled in red. Photograph from the William Edmund Allen Collection, Howard University Archives, Washington DC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1577044930801-3PPDHO7PKIP41BK50ET4/Unknown+death+366th.jpg The Dead | Braided in Fire Unknown death from the 366th. This is the only photo of a 366th soldier showing a member of the regiment in the Serchio Valley. 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Publisher: Knox Press. Publication date: January 28, 2020 Language: English ISBN: 9781948496032 https://braidedinfire.com/mistreatment-of-the-366th-infantry-regiment-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1576768136858-NS5H9HHRN6Q2PV3JNYWF/Almond+w+99nd+african-americans-wwii-034.jpg Mistreatment of the 366th Regiment | Braided in Fire Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond, Commanding General of the 92nd Infantry (‘Buffalo') Division in Italy, inspects his troops during a decoration ceremony. Circa March 1945. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration; 208-AA-47Y-1. https://braidedinfire.com/author-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2020-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1603394592485-GM3QQ4CVWITK1913W4F4/Solace+Wales+researching+Braided+in+Fire+1997.jpg Author | Braided in Fire Solace Wales doing research for the book on her Sommocolonia terrace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1576682943016-RHL5FCV1Q5JC425LH5X9/Solace_Wales_Braided-in-Fire.jpeg Author | Braided in Fire Solace Wales Sheets, author of Braided in Fire: Black GIs and Tuscan Villagers on the Gothic Line, published by Knox Press, January 2020. 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Sandra has a treasured memory of meeting him when she was 6 years old and playing in Brockton Street when JFK stopped to chat with the children while he was out politicking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1581107088397-2C42A6UZGSYIARC914QZ/Arlene%2BFox%2Band%2BPres%2BClinton_1-13-1997.jpg Photographs | Braided in Fire Arlene Fox holding the Medal of Honor which was presented to John R. 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ISBN ISBN: 9781948496032 https://braidedinfire.com/beware-of-misinformation-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1582670606453-JT4HKRNQBIRXTDOT0173/01+Arlene+and+Pres+Clinton_sm-website.jpg Beware of Misinformation | Braided in Fire Arlene Fox holding the Medal of Honor which was presented to John R. Fox by President Clinton on January 13, 1997. Photo courtesy of the White House Photographer. https://braidedinfire.com/john-fox-was-not-a-buffalo-soldier-braided-in-fire daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5efe126bb8800001bf064d/1576791824081-EE4CBCX84UHZFL2XDBQA/John%2BRobert%2BFox-72ppi.jpg John Fox Was Not a Buffalo Soldier | Braided in Fire Lt. John R. Fox and his fellow members of the 366th Infantry Regiment did not become Buffalo Soldiers when their regiment was “attached”for four months to the 92nd Infantry ‘Buffalo Division’ at the end of November 1944. 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