As a young black growing up during the Great Depression in La Grange, Texas, Vernon Hopson spent many days working in the fields and watching as airplanes buzzed the crops. He told himself that one day he was going to fly. He read an newspaper article about the Tuskegee Airmen, then got a word of encouragement from his high school principal, who had been kicked out of flight training school just two months before his graduation because he was black. He told Hopson to pursue his dream. That was all Hopson needed to spur him to enlist in the Army...