That is some find, Jim. A remarkably sad and thought provoking read.
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Originally Posted by Jim O
...the reminiscences of a senior official in the Division of Plans and Policies who looked back on his 1942 experiences:
"It just scared us to death when the colored were put on it. I went over to Selective Service and saw Gen. Hershey, and he turned me over to a lieutenant colonel [Campbell C. Johnson]—that was in April—and he was one grand person. I told him, "Eleanor [Mrs. Roosevelt] says we gotta take in Negroes, and we are just scared to death, we've never had any in, we don't know how to handle them, we are afraid of them."
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To think, the United Sates was just attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and seriously bloodied. Hitler had just declared war and America was facing the then very powerful and threatening Axis alliance.
Yet this is what some Americans feared.
Here's to those you had to fight to fight.
Prosit!