Reply #9: I wish my dad were alive to read what what you wrote about your dad [View All]

[dflprincess]

He was also in the Army Air Corps. He grew up in a small Minnesota town where race wasn't an issue (because everyone was white). When he went off to the Army he was stationed first in Texas and then in South Carolina before shipping out and he was shocked by Jim Crow - though I'm not sure he gave much thought to Army being segregated. What made him a supporter of the civil rights movement was finding out that vets like your dad were being denied the right to vote. It made him mad as hell that men who had fought for their country were being denied the most basic of rights.

I think he'd remember how Black veterans were treated after WWII and he'd be glad for all the veterans who got to see this day. This is what they fought the war for.