JULY 28, 2014 – NATIONAL MILK CHOCOLATE DAY – BUFFALO SOLDIERS DAY

                   NATIONAL MILK CHOCOLATE DAY

Milk Chocolate lovers, today is a day to celebrate!  Each year on July 28, it is National Milk Chocolate Day.  July 7 was the day we all happily celebrated National Chocolate Lovers Day, now today is all about the flavor of Milk Chocolate.
If you have ever wondered how milk chocolate is made different from other chocolate, keep reading and you will learn the answer:
Milk chocolate is solid chocolate that is made with milk in the form of milk powder, liquid milk or condensed milk.
Millions of people enjoy milk chocolate in candy, in baking and in hot chocolate.

Today enjoy milk chocolate YOUR favorite way.

Following are a few “tried and true” recipes we wanted to share with you:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/milk-chocolate-popcorn/
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Candy-Bar-Cake/Detail.aspx?evt19=1http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Milk-Chocolate-Pecan-Pie/Detail.aspx?evt19=1

HAPPY NATIONAL MILK CHOCOLATE DAY!

NATIONAL MILK CHOCOLATE DAY HISTORY
Our research has found that National Milk Chocolate Day, an “unofficial” national holiday, was started by the National Confectioners Association.
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BUFFALO SOLDIERS DAY

Buffalo Soldier Commemorations have been held throughout our nation since 1992 when the United States Congress passed a law designating July 28 as Buffalo Soldiers Day in the United States.  Buffalo Soldiers Day commemorates the formation in 1866 of the first regular Army regiments comprising African-American soldiers.
“Buffalo Soldiers” (one of many African-American regiments raised during the Civil War) were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.
Mark Matthews, who is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery, was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier at 111 years old when he died on September 6, 2005.
The segregated regiments were disbanded during the 1940′s and 1950′s as the U.S. armed forces embraced integration.
On the first Buffalo Soldiers Day in 1992, a monument to the Buffalo Soldier was dedicated at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by General Colin Powell.
The Buffalo Soldier Museum is located in Houston Texas :  http://buffalosoldiermuseum.com/
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