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Message: [QUOTE="jdb50, post: 4209928, member: 1530"] People need to know how in WWI with black Americans wanting to help with the USA's entrance to the war, there was a debate inside the armed service as to whether it was smart to let them serve in combat roles as they would be shooting white people (the enemy/Germans). This resulted in the black soldiers being put into behind the front support duties except for some units who the French were happy to have serve at the front lines and those soldiers served with bravery and distinction. Fast forward to 1932 and it is right in line with military thinking to have a problem such as occurred for Fitch at the Coast Guard Academy. The US Army had many in the officer corps from the South (and of course some from the North as well) who really resisted integration in the Army but it finally occurred during the Korean War. The black soldiers who served in WWI came home to Jim Crow, segregation and horrific incidents like Tulsa and others like it. It is why Doc Rivers made the statement he made after George Floyd about love of country and why the country does not love them back. Honey Fitch's son was amazing in his speech. [/QUOTE]