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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