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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Tuskegee Airmen honored
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jmig
SOH-CM-2026
There was a gentleman from Lafayette featured in the local paper who went. He was an aircraft mechanic with them in WWII. He said it was a bitter sweet trip. It brought back a lot of bad memories of how they were treated.
I am glad to live in a country that will recognize its errors and apologize while saying thanks to people who deserved more than they received. Slavery and the prejudicial mindset it created were great evils. They were sins for which we are still paying the consequences.
I am glad to live in a country that will recognize its errors and apologize while saying thanks to people who deserved more than they received. Slavery and the prejudicial mindset it created were great evils. They were sins for which we are still paying the consequences.
srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
I spent a day this past summer at the Chanute Air Museum (Rantoul, IL) and was quite impressed with their exhibit on the 99th P.S. -- but more impressed was my father-in-law who grew up in Illinois and flew Marauders in Europe.
http://www.aeromuseum.org/exhibitsCurrent_99th.html
For those close enough, go see the museum!
http://www.aeromuseum.org/exhibitsCurrent_99th.html
For those close enough, go see the museum!
Panther_99FS
Retired SOH Administrator
You have to REALLY LOVE YOUR COUNTRY to fight under circumstances like this...
"The airmen fought Adolf Hitler overseas and Jim Crow on American soil, being degraded as second-class citizens and watching as German prisoners of war were treated better than them."
"The airmen fought Adolf Hitler overseas and Jim Crow on American soil, being degraded as second-class citizens and watching as German prisoners of war were treated better than them."