This is simply an awesome story:
TUSKEGEE, Ala. - Lt. Col. Herbert Carter is 86 years old and ready for deployment. More than 60 years after his World War II tour with the pioneering black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Carter's new mission will be shorter, though no less courageous.
Carter is one of seven aging Tuskegee Airmen traveling this weekend to Balad, Iraq - a city ravaged by roadside bombs and insurgent activity - to inspire a younger generation of airmen who carry on the traditions of the storied 332nd Fighter Group.
"I don't think it hurts to have someone who can empathize with them and offer them encouragement," he said.
H/T to Matt at BlackFive.
Other black leaders support the troops in their own way:
“Hope cometh in the morning for our children who were sent to war in Iraq on bad intelligence and worse leadership”. (applause). Fight a war that is foreign to our values, leaves us weaker and less secure. Sent to a war in Iraq, the wars of mass deception are more power than weapons of mass destruction. It is a moral disgrace. A moral disgrace. America deserves better. It is a moral disgrace."
The Iraq war "is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. ... This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed... They had a plan to put our kids in harm's way long before 9/11 because it's not their kids ... that's exactly why. They go and pick a fight, and then say, 'I'll hold your coat"
"the Muslim American people are praying to the almighty God to grant victory to Iraq [in the war]."
“Now Bush intends to spend all our money on this war while giving nothing to our raggedy, dilapidated schools, healthcare, and veterans. We fought the U.S.’s wars and then had to come back and ride in the back of the bus.”
Thank God for the Tuskegee Airmen.
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