What a great painting! It brought a tear to my eye. Gen James was a great racquetball player. In Feb 1977 he presented me with an award for "Airman of the Year" for Keesler AFB and the Keesler Medical Center. I got to spend a couple of days with him tagging along with his official meetings. My Father was his photographer at Petersen Field in Colorado Springs that year also and Gen James knew him well. My Father was a gruff NCO. In Jan 1978 I was in college at Tennessee when I got the news he had passed from a heart attack.
General James faced Khadafi with a .45 M1911 at the front gate of Wheelus AFB with Khadafi in a tank stating that he might enter but it would be over his dead body. The man was a patriot and brave. Most blacks have no idea who this man was.
