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2. When I was in the Army

I was transferring from Ft Monmouth NJ to Redstone Arsenal AL. Because it was the labor day weekend the Huntsville airport was closed and we landed in Chattanooga and took a bus from there to Huntsville. At the rest stop they had the white and colored restrooms and no "colored " were allowed into the restaurant. All they could access was the colored water fountain. I asked whether anyone wanted food or a drink and took orders and bought the stuff for them. I guess it may have been the fact that I grew up in a co-ed integrated boarding school which was like Boy's Town, but predated Boy's Town by a dozen years, but it never occurred to me that there was any reason for the segregation. It wasn't until some time later that it occurred to me that perhaps I shouldn't have done that because it supported the racist scumbags, or that it was a sad commentary on how the poor Southern blacks were treated that it didn't occur to them not to order anything.

A few months later I went to Birmingham with a black friend and getting on the city bus was a real eye opener. I was called everything except a white man and if we hadn't been in uniform I'm convinced to this day that we would have been murdered right there on that bus. About 6 years later, Rosa Parks came along and thank God for her.

Now we have a possible GOP presidential candidate who longs for a return to that day and people are taking Rand Paul seriously. My God, America, or at least half of it has gone insane.