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- 1834
--Andrew Cord is born a free man in Boston, MA
- 1861-1865
--American Civil is fought. Andrew Cord enlists with the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers, commanded by Robert Gould Shaw, a white officer. Cord hopes to fight in defense of his "brothers and sisters"
still enslaved in the South, and for the preservation of the Union.
- 1863
--Andrew Cord falls in battle. He is approached by immortal Robert Gould, who becomes
his first teacher.
- 1865-1914
--Between wars, Cord drifts as a second class citizen in a society where black
men are free... but hardly equal.
- 1914-1919
--World War I is fought. Andrew Cord serves with "Black Jack" Pershing's Negro
unit with distinction in this "war to end all wars."
- 1919-1941
--Between the wars, Cord continues to drift, observing that as a rule, equality
for blacks is still elusive.
- 1941-1945
--World War II is fought. Cord enlists and serves in Europe determined to fight
the good fight and to rid the world of the evil that is Adolph Hitler. He distinguishes himself in battle.
- 1945-1950
--Once again Cord sits on the sidelines of life in America and feels he and others
are not getting the recognition they deserve for their sacrifices during wartime.
- 1950-1952
--Cord serves with the U.S. Military in Korea but is becoming increasingly jaded
about the rightness of any war. He begins to feel that it is only in the closeness and camaraderie of the military unit that
true brotherhood and equality exist.
- 1952-1963
--Cord witnesses the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, but feels it is
too little, too late. It is in war that he will seek true equality.
- 1968
--As Sgt. Andy Cord, he leads the men of Bravo Company, U.S. Marines in Vietnam. A
charismatic leader who puts the lives and the safety of his men before all other considerations, he also tends to turn a blind
eye to the depravations of some of his men and begins to consider that war exists for men to profit from. Killed in an engagement,
he keeps an eye on his men, and when one of them, Joseph "Boy Scout" Dawson steps on a land mine and is gravely injured, he
saves his life by carriying him on his back to a MASH unit and then vanishes from sight.
- 1995
-- Andy Cord, gun-runner shows up in the Balkans and sells defective weapons to the
insurgents led by Mara Leonin and her lover, Charlie DeSalvo. When Mara discovers what has happened, Cord kills her and
Charlie vows revenge.
- Aug 1995
-- While at the Seacouver airport to pick up another arms shipment, Andy Cord senses
another immortal arriving on a connector flight. A few moments later he is shot by a sniper, who turns out to be DeSalvo.
Cord awakens in a vehicle and is greeted by old friend… Joe Dawson, who apparently knows all about him… and his
immortality. Dawson attempts to keep his other immortal friend, Duncan MacLeod and Andy from fighting one another. Things
seem to be working until Charlie shows up. Cord kills DeSalvo.
- 21 Aug 1995
--Andy Cord plays his last battlegame at a paint-ball facility against Duncan
MacLeod with deadly results. He loses… and MacLeod claims his head.
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