Thank you for the link on Tom Hudner.
It is a great story, and emblematic of American greatness and self sacrifice.
I got a little misty reading it.
And not that it mattered to Captain Hudner or matters to BLM for deeply different reasons, that pilot he tried to save was a black American, the first black naval aviator.
You are most welcome.
I drove to work last week, and there were film crews and cameras set up in Concord at 5:30 AM, and I wondered what the deal was. One only sees that on Patriot’s Day in Concord.
I admit to being irritated at looking up the link to put in my post, I found a NYT article about him, and it said “Thomas Hudner, War Hero in a Civil Rights Milestone, Dies at 93”
Granted, the pilot shot down was black, but...whey the heck do they have to make every single bloody damn thing about race????????????
I am sure Captain Hudner didn’t care the guy was black, and didn’t crash his plane because the guy was black. He did it because he was a fellow American and fellow pilot.
Boy, do I hate the NYT.