Remembering to honor the Tuskeegee Airmen and Black soldiers on the commemoration of D-Day 75 years later
By Mona Austin On this 75th anniversary of D-Day, it is important to recognize the crucial role the Tuskeegee Airmen played in World War Two (WWII) in response to German occupation. The reports on their precise involvement on D-Day are conflicting. One report says the all-Black regimen dropped thousands of bombs during the Normandy invasion on Omaha Beach. Answers.com says they fought thousands of miles away from Normandy. African Americans responding to the call to serve and protect our nation's interest date back to the American Revolution. Sadly, African American soldiers have had to fight two wars -- one for a nation that often mistreated, undervalued and disrespected their kind and another for the universal ideals of freedom. In the case of Tuskeegee Airmen, the government denied the m the opportunity to fly bomber planes, instead only being allowed to assist by flying fighter aircrafts on protection missions to kee...