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llashram

(6,265 posts) Sun May 30, 2021, 10:10 PM May 2021

and 22 years on from Greenwood

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and on and on and on...2021

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and 22 years on from Greenwood (Original Post) llashram May 2021 OP

Remember reading/hearing about segregated units in WW2. How could Hoyt May 2021 #1

my father was there llashram May 2021 #2

My dad grew up in South, so at 18 in 1940/41 he was certainly no Hoyt May 2021 #3

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Remember reading/hearing about segregated units in WW2. How could

Reply to llashram (Original post)

Sun May 30, 2021, 10:22 PM

May 2021

that happen “fighting for democracy?” I’m sure it was same or worse in WW1.

llashram

(6,265 posts)

2. my father was there

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Sun May 30, 2021, 10:27 PM

May 2021

in France 1945. He told me, while we were talking over drinks in Saigon, how prejudiced(his word) the white soldiers were in Britain during the staging for the Normandy invasion. How hateful and violent. And on and on it continues. 2021.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. My dad grew up in South, so at 18 in 1940/41 he was certainly no

Reply to llashram (Reply #2)

Sun May 30, 2021, 10:31 PM

May 2021

civil rights activist (probably ambivalent or just not aware at that time), but he often criticized the segregated units he saw when he joined.

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