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Originally posted by WenD08
i wish my great-great uncle was here, he'd love to have been a part of the celebration. he was a Tuskegee Airman who flew commercially after he did his 20 yrs. of military service. for those who saw the Tuskegee Airman movie on HBO, when Laurence Fishburne and Malcolm Jamal Warner crash landed near those prisoners, Fishburne depicted my great-great uncle since that was his story, one of many during World War II.
i have the movie so i can show (hopefully) show my kids and grandkids this little piece of history
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Soror WenD08,
I have the greatest admiration for the Tuskegee Airmen. Do you know that my grandmother (who was around when they were flying their missions) said that Blacks (at least her and those in her community and with which she interacted) never even KNEW that the Tuskegee Airmen existed or that they were doing it like they were doing it? For our government to request that only THEY guard certain planes b/c of their outstanding record - and for the gov't not to inform the American people of this outstanding core of gentlemen is just ridiculous.
<Shaking my head> She said that they never knew.
Kudos to the outstanding never-fearing Tuskegee Airmen!
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