Oscar Culp and George Mitchell, among the first blacks admitted to the Marine Corps, were immediately segregated from white Marines as they trained in Montford Point, NC. But once they were in the heat of battle in the Pacific, that racial divide disappeared.
guess the fears the established military had was not so much an issue when you need another gun to save their own butts.
discrimination continued on through my service in the mid 60's, don't know about now but i do know old habits die hard. had McCain won would this long time denial of service would have been celebrated this way?
hard for me although happy for recipients, to get all gung ho when the country recognize's ethnic contributions decades late. when will they give all the right of being equal as they were created under?
