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ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live after comments on Charlie Kirk
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How many WWII veterans do you know? At least one of them, 101 years old is still around.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — With members of a trailblazing Black Air Force unit passing away at advanced ages, efforts to remain true to their memory carry on despite sometimes confusing orders from President Donald Trump as he purges federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few airmen and support crew who proved that a Black unit — the 332nd Fighter Group of the Tuskegee Airmen — could fight as well as any other in World War II and the years after.
He went on to become the first Black jet fighter pilot in Korean airspace during the Korean War, and a decorated one after 126 missions. He was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who won the first U.S. Air Force Gunnery Meet in 1949, a forerunner of today’s U.S. Navy “Top Gun” school.
“They said we didn’t have any ability to operate aircraft or operate heavy machinery. We were inferior to the white man. We were nothing,” Harvey said. “So we showed them.”
Shortly after Trump’s January inauguration, the Air Force removed new recruit training courses that included videos of the Tuskegee Airmen.
One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump's DEI purge
James H. Harvey III is 101 years old and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The Black U.S. Air Force pilots and crew based at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama fought in North Africa and Europe in World War II.
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Eventually public outcry led to a reversal of that decision, with the Trump administration arguing that they didn't really mean to do it. It's discouraging that 80 years after black airmen showed that they could fly with the best of them, some racist celebrity was still blathering about being worried if his flight had a black pilot.
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