i thank you mr clark

for your service and your bravery and your heroism. we've come a very long way since the 40s but we STILL have a very very very long way to go. people of all colors and all backgrounds have served the united states of america. people of all colors and backgrounds have protected us and kept us safe. for that we ALL should recognize you AND thank you


One Man’s War Story Illuminates the Heroism of One Million
By SCOTT JAMES

Until recently, Carl E. Clark, 93, was still driving his car around Menlo Park. Then came a fall, a new hip and recovery in a rehabilitation hospital. But it was another wound he wanted to talk about — one that happened 64 years ago.

“The Navy and the civilian media held back things that lots of us did,” Mr. Clark said. “For obvious reasons: the prejudice and bigotry that was going on at that time.”

He is part of “the greatest generation” whose valor remains largely invisible: he is among an estimated one million black veterans from World War II. Due to the endemic racism of the time, their wartime heroism was often not recorded in official battle reports, a history manipulated to negate their accomplishments.

Now there is a move to give Mr. Clark credit for his role in a dramatic tale of survival.........

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Noah Berger for The New York Times

Carl E. Clark's actions during World War II were negated.

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