There was a similar debate about âNegroâ in the 2000 Census, as there have been about other race terms in previous census years. Before 1960, census-takers filled out the enumeration forms and chose the category for each American they counted.
The Garrison train wreck, 1897. Garrison is a hamlet in Putnam County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Philipstown, on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Garrison Metro-North Railroad station serves the town.
, Parks volunteer, lead hikes, teach outdoor stuff. In the old days, it was the just military people assigned to a place rather than or in addition to being assigned to a regiment. Nowadays, the garrison is the people who stay behind and keep the heat working when the rest go overseas to war. In the US Army sense, a base will typically have tenant units like deployable divisions, brigades, and battalions, plus a garrison of troops who stay on the base to run things there rather than deploying overseas to the war.