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| Airman Eugene Robinson at Crozer library - Nov 2007 |
Red Tails, the hot new movie hitting the big screen this week, tells the story of the black pilots in the Tuskegee training program facing segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II.
Who remembers that the Red Tails story was told first hand at the Crozer Library in November 2007 by an actual Tuskegee airman?
Sadly, only a few folks came out to hear airman Eugene Robinson tell the many stories facing the Tuskegee airmen.
Maybe if we can get him back we’d have a room full of people.
Here’s the Chester Spotlight account below.
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True American heros. God bless them. You can do anything in this life as long as you strive for it.
ReplyDeleteThe Tuskegee Airmen was my motivation to enlist in the military right out of high school. I wanted to be a pilot but they waited until the last year of my enlistment before I was offered the training and I would have had to reenlist for four years to get it. The reat is history. I chose to get out and pursue a career in electronics since I had studied electronics while in the military. I repaired- the early warning radar system, was a radar operator and the first Black to service in that capacity in the U.S. Army.
ReplyDeleteI will be going to see the movie "Red Tail" tonight to pay my respect to the men who motivated me to be the best I could be.
LW....Atlanta, GA
Eugene was at Wayne Elementary School today
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