Sunday, October 23, 2005

Tuskegee Airmen Suit Up, Head to Iraq

"'I think everything should be done to pass their story to future generation of Americans,' said Ted Johnson, 80, who graduated from the Advanced Flight School in 1945 and is considered one of the youngest Tuskegee Airmen.

'It was the Tuskegee Airmen who made America come to its senses,' he said, 'that individuals should be judged on their accomplishments, rather than their ethnicity and color.'"