World/Nation
By B LKACZOR
for U.S. t
R rvoir.
v r of death. "
Brown' body was spotted,
stripped of clothing but still in '
th cockpit, thre days later. It
w too dangerous to try a reeov
ery so pilo dropped napalm,
cremating the wreckage and his
body.
The decommissioning will be
Ms. Thome's first visit to Pensa
(,,'01 since her hu band was sta
tioned here in 1948.
"Th re was quite a bit of dis
crimination and prejudice," she
r called. "Be and I had gone to a
m vi one night .... Some of the
hor Patrol people followed us,
call d us names, wanted to know
why h was in that uniform."
But he said Brown was de
termined to overcome such
prejudice and achieve his dream .
of flying for the Navy.
Budner said Brown was a
cen r of attention on the carrier
b ause he was the Navy's first
Black viator.
"But he was held in very high
regard, too," Budner said. "He
was a very modest person, had a
ense or humor and had lot of
fri nds."
UNTIL 0 TOBER 1992,
the ship was b ed at Char
leston, S.C., and earlier that
year was the site of a reunion for
more than 150 Brown family
members. Ms. Thorne visited
the ship again after it moved to
Mobile, Ala. I t came to Pensa
cola thi ye r when th Mobil
base closed.
Hudn r, who atten d th
commissioning but willmi th
decommissioning, was Brown's
wingman in a flight of four F4U-
4 Corsairs from th ir raft car
rier US Leyte on D . 4, 1950.
They we providing air cov r
"Be was very, very calm,"
Budner re lled of Brown, who
slipped in and out of conscious
ness.
ATLANTA - Avery Brooks, Artistic Director of the 1994 National Black Art Fe tival, nd
Ingrid Saunders Jones, Vice President, Corporate External Affairs, The Ccca-Cota Company
and Fe tival board member; listen to Alhaji Papa Su so of West Africa play the Kora at an
opening night celebration. Coca-Cola has been a title sponsor of the bi-anouat Festival ince
it began in 1988.
lack soldiers ay
history has left them out
CINCINNATI (AP) - Black 01-
diers have served the United
States in every war from the
Revolution to the P rsian Gulf,
but black ve erans s y th ir con-
tributions have n given littl
or no recognition in the nation's
history books.
CoL Norman C. Miller, Ko
rean War ve eran, id recent
celebrations marking the 50th
anniversary of D- ay show d
the need for a mo m nt to rec
ognize what Blacks in the mili
tary hav done.
Miller and hi w if were
watching a replay of the D-Day
landings on. tel visi n wh n sh
asked wher th Bl ck ldiers
were.
"She k m: idn't you
guys do nything in the mili
tary?" h aid.
Several 0 h rBI' ck v terans
in the Cin inn t i r id th y
enjoyed their time in h mili-
bat units, � I did everything but
fight. -I wanted to fight, but I
ne r got the chance," h said.
R tired Lt. Edward "Don"
D ran, who flew P-40s in World
W r TI, r alled how Bl ck 01-
di w re treated in th S uth
in he arly 19 Os.
"P ople we very unkind. In .
Fl rida, th y wer particularly
In n." h aid." A Black soldier
had to st p off the idewalk to 1 t
a Caucasi n pass. Th It lian
P Ws were treated bett r than
the Black flyers who w r de
fending th ir country."
ROLL THOMP ON,
retired Army m jor, r II!? th
roops he saw whil growing up
in incinnat i in th 1930.
"I u d to wat h the soldie
mar h to th amory to put on
their uniforms for the parad
and I w there w r no Black
soldier ," Thompson said, "I
wondered why the were none.
I thought it would be really neat
to put on the uniform of my coun
try."
H eventually nlisted in th
Army, served in th infantry nd
wen to th Philippine a a up
ply offi r.
"I had n train to figh ,
but th r w no Blacks in com-
. .
Son of OD. Elijah Muhammad
criticizes arrakhan teachings
BUSCH TADIUM
S1. lOUIS, MO
w uld lik to id ntifi with
Mu lims worldwi e, nd hat's
what tortures him."
RAN CITY, Mo. (AP) - Th
son of Black Mu lim founder Eli
jah Muhammad. ys the group's
cu rrent leader, Loui F rrak
han, hould r noun hi epa
rat.i t t chin. and
the "tru t chin "
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