Political Quotes

“on this Veterans Day, I rise to recognize a group of truly deserving American veterans--the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. This heroic group of African American flyers fought in two types of battles--the battle of World War II and the battle against racism at home. The Tuskegee airmen were dedicated, determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, at a time when rampant racism led many people to falsely assume that black men lacked intelligence, skill, and patriotism. And boy, were they proved wrong. The military feats of this group can be described as nothing less than phenomenal. In Order to enter the training program, the young men were held to the same demanding physical and mental standards as all other military pilots and soldiers of supporting fields. And between 1942 and 1946, 992 black American pilots graduated from the rigorous program offered at Tuskegee Army Air Field, not to mention the black navigators, bombardiers, and gunnery crews that were trained at selected military bases elsewhere due to a lack of facilities at Tuskegee.”