https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_T._Barfoot
Great story. Barfoot was half Choctaw.:
Having grown up in the strictly segregated south, Barfoot was noted for a comment he made in 1945 regarding African-Americans. Mississippi senator and Ku Klux Klan member Theodore G. Bilbo asked Barfoot if he had much trouble with the African-American soldiers he had served with during the war. To Bilbo’s embarrassment, Barfoot responded, “I found out after I did some fighting in this war that the colored boys fight just as good as the white boys...I’ve changed my idea a lot about colored people since I got into this war and so have a lot of other boys from the south”
He also fought his HOA for the right to fly the American flag a few years back.
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2009/12/03/veteran-ordered-stop-flying-flag/#slide=1