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Sure, You've Heard The Story. But It's STILL A Good One
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They honored the Tuskegee Airmen this July 4th in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and you know the story by now (or should). But I think it does raise a topic of whether there was ever anything that contributed more to changes in thinking about race, and allowing the U.S. to suddenly move faster and more assertively towards racial equality, than the war. When cooperation is a necessity -- when everyone is united in a single mission -- racism has to get pushed aside. It didn't, obviously, eliminate the problem, but you have to imagine that more attitudes were changed at once by people of all races working together in the military than by any other means. (Knoxville News-Sentinel; Thanks to Frank Murphy at WWST (Star 102.1)/Knoxville for the link)
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