Black Justice League: Remove Woodrow Wilson's name from Princeton

[JustAnotherGen]

70. My dad was an awesome Green Beret - one of the first ones

His special leave put him at home in Tallladega Alabama in 1964 before he could vote from abroad. Unfortunately it fell during the 1964 election.

At the point he was a Captain and had a purple heart.

It was too dangerous for him to vote. He would have been safer in Vietnam among the Montagnards than patriotic white Americans in the deep South -It stuck in his craw until the day he died (August 2011).

It is a slap in the face to black soldiers and veterans who NEVER once went against America in battle.

And in Rochester he is buried three rows over from American soldiers (officers) from the Civil War.


Hey - at least those Civil War soldiers from Western NY appreciate that their deaths were not in vain - right? I mean he's in good company who appreciate his service to a country that pissed on him - right?

And yes - I'm making clear that even Black infantry and Navy cooks who served during WW I, WW II, Korea, and Vietnam were greater Americans than Robert E Lee - as well, as having superior service to their country. Their country - not his.