Touching anecdote, Doc Sarvis, thank you.

The majority-- not all-- colored units in WWII were relegated to support functions such as transportation and not given the same chances to be war heroes like their white counterparts.

When you look at the newspaper coverage of WWII, you hardly see Soldiers of Color. But the Amsterdam News and other newspapers in Detroit and Philadelphia wrote about black soldiers all the time.

Sidenote:

The National Security Archives released this bit of secret information only a few years ago.

Landing on the five beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944, each US Army company or platoon (I forget) had a soldier carrying a Geiger counter ("radiacmeter").

"Ike" was apprised of the US Manhattan Project and wasn't sure if the Third Reich didn't have an atomic bomb or some sort of "death ray" weapon.

Imagine, all the books or movies about D-Day that we read or watched over the decades never mentioned that.

Wow. Like penal battalions, Doc Sarvis.

*** Inconsiderate Pete Hogsbreath Further Strains USACID by Dragging Entire Family With Him to France ***

Excerpt: "Pete Hogsbreath's decision to bring six of his children and his strumpet wife on an official trip to France that began Friday is putting added strain on his US Army CID PSD amid heightened threats stemming from the Iran war the US is fighting on behalf of Israel."

My pleasure, Doc Sarvis.

Slavery is America's original sin indeed, as John Brown preached.

John Brown was hurriedly indicted, tried, convicted, and executed all within four months.

He and his message of freedom for the slaves needed to be quashed immediately.

The bloody Haitian slave revolt was still in the minds of whites all over the US, but particularly in the heads of wealthy Southern plantation owners.

Initially, prosecutors didn't know know how to legally charge John Brown, so he was indicted for "treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia."

Yet after the US Civil War, prosecutors were unable to come up with the appropriate charges for Jefferson Davis who outlived A. Lincoln in relative freedom by 24 years.

Sidenote: John Wilkes Booth may have attended John Brown's trial. He was confirmed to be at his hanging.

My favorite depiction of our American hero looking at all of us: