A war hero who was a stranger in his own land

[guno]

The forgotten of history because of racism, America's ongoing shame


Brown's name eventually faded from history, a forgotten man from a forgotten war. But he was more than a pilot, he was a racial pioneer: the U.S. Navy's first African-American pilot. Brown went from steering a mule in a cotton field to steering seven-ton fighter planes onto aircraft carriers. And while many know of the Tuskegee Airmen, who broke the color barrier among Army aviators in World War II, few know of Brown, who broke the same barrier in the Navy -- alone.

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Brown was shot down in Korea and was apparently awarded the DFC. Why would the left label him a "stranger in in his own land"? The Troops never called it the "forgotten war. The phrase was invented by the media which decided to protect the Truman administration from criticism rather than covering his incompetence. Truman sent Troops to Korea an executive order which might have been an impeachable offense and under his leadership or lack of it the U.S. ended up were it started after a three year quagmire that took about 50,000 lives. Why would the left wing media single out a Black Veteran who was recognized for his service? Is the desperate left trying to keep the racial pot simmering after half a century? It's disrespectful to the families of the other 50,000 American heroes who were lost not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Korean War Veterans who went on with their lives without seeking recognition for their valor.