[Vigilanteman]

I'm curious as to how many Tuskegee Airmen are still around. This strikes me as a grand-standing "feel-good" gesture which should have been done at least 30 years earlier.

[SpitfyrAce]

I'm a huge fan of WWII aviation and love it when our pilot heroes are given their props. I'm pretty sure that the 56th Fighter Group was the highest scoring US group in WWII, but their mission was more of a search and destroy type, rather than straight bomber protection.

You are absolutely right about waiting too damned long to give these folks recognition. I attended the WWII Memorial Dedication with my family and was terribly depressed that my "war hero" uncle (combat medic, Pacific, Bushmasters) passed away just 6 months before. He planned on attending, but ended up going only as a glossy photograph. Why did it take 60 years to build it? Who knows - I'm just glad it's there now.