Actually it makes sense despite the hyperbole.
If you want to know if the gas has different effects on people with darker skin, you don’t do tests on Albinos.
Great article thanks for posting it.
What the DOD did was wrong but the men’s reaction proves what great patriots they are/were. Again the program was wrong on every level, no justification for it what so ever but these men and their attitudes, especially Beesho (sp?) should serve to shame us all who continue to complain but never do anything.
These men should be recognized. There should be a national monument to their sacrifice, something to keep their story alive.
The article sort of glosses over that white soldiers were also subjected to the same experiments. IOW, the soldiers of color weren’t tested on because they were considered expendable but because they wanted to find out whether there was a differential effect.
It would be interesting to see if they found any. Though I doubt it.
Obviously the studies were unethical, but based on the descriptions they weren’t particularly racist.
So he is 93 years old. And the problem is?
Importantly, the Australians conducted a similar test, with their soldiers wearing gas masks and doing calisthenics in light mustard gas. And they made a film of it, and gave a copy to the US Army.
Then in the 1970s or ‘80s, when their scandal blew up, they demanded the US copy of the film back. The US Army said “we have lost it”, but the truth was it was too valuable to be lost or returned to be destroyed.