Bonnie Kessell, Donald Cossitt, Molly Becket, Dovie Alderman, Ginny Clough, Ron Cecil, John Hall, Jerry Stefani, Leeann Pat, Michael Burcham, Jeannine Hunt
, that Black Americans have fought in every American conflict since the Revolutionary War. Freeman also shared his experiences after the release of the 1989 Civil War epic Glory, in which he played Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins, a soldier in one of the Union Armys first African American regiments.