LESSON LEARNED FROM THE " TUSKEGEE AIRMEN "

PRAISE THE LORD EVERBODY,  I TOUCHED ON FEBRUARY AS BEING THE MONTH FOR US TO LEARN  A FEW THINGS  ABOUT OUR BLACK  CITIZENS, HERE IN AMERICA. THIS MONTH I ALSO WANT TO TAKE TIME TO POINT OUT SOME VERY BRAVE  BLACK MEN IN THE MILITARY, ESPECIALLY THE , BRAVE BLACK MEN WHO WAS IN THE  AIR FORCES. FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE SO OBTUSE, WHO THINK OUR BLACK CITIZENS ARE BENEATH THEM, NOT AS SMART, NOT AS CAPABLE AS OUR  WHITE CITIZENS. LET ME REMIND YOU THAT JEHOVAH GOD WHO RULES THE UNIVERSE HAS CREATED US IN HIS OWN IMAGE, AND AFTER HIS LIKENESS. WE ARE ALL EQUIALLY THE SAME IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. THERE IS NO SUPERIOR, OR INFERIOR RACES. GOD IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS. WE NEED TO GET OVER THIS THING OF THINKING WE ARE BETTER THAN ANOTHER PERSON, IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU ARE BLACK OR WHITE, OR THOSE IN-BETWEEN COLORS WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF GOD, IF WE HAVE MADE JESUS  OUR LORD AND MASTER. WE MUST HAVE OUR OWN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, HE IS THE ONE WHO PAID OUR SIN DEBT. LIKE THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WHO I BELIEVE THEY HAD A RELATION-SHIP WITH JESUS. THEY HAD SOME GREAT CHALLENGES BUT THEY ROSE TO THE OCCASION, AND PROVED TO THE  UNITED STATES' MILITARY THEY  COULD DO THE SAME JOB, AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS.. IM GOING TO TAKE BITS AND PIECES FROM , THE BOOK AND MOVIE KNOWN AS , "REDTAIL ",----- THIS  IS TAKEN FROM THE BOOK  KNOWN AS  "RISING ABOVE
     THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WERE THE FIRST BLACK PILOTS IN  THE UNITED STATES, THEY BEGAN THEIR TRAINING BACK IN  1941, THE SAME YEAR I WAS BORN, AND IN THE SAME STATE I WAS BORN. ALABAMA. THEY CAME ON THE SCENE  A LITTLE BEFORE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND ROSA PARKS, MALCON X, PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY AND ROBERT KENNEDY AND RALPH ABERNATHY, JESSE JACKSON, AND THER WERE SO MANY MORE WHO , I DID MY LITTLE PART TO FIGHT AGAINST SEGERGATION. THE ALABAMA TUSKEGEE AIRMEN PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN US GETTING OUR EQUALITY, SO  DID SOME OF OUR PRESIDENTS, LINCOLN, JOHNSON. . I CAN GO ON AND ON BUT TIME NOR SPACE WILL PERMIT ME, BUT  THESE YOUNG MEN MADE A BIG DIFFRENCE IN THE   DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY, IN WORLD WAR 2. THEY PLAYED A GREAT ROLE IN THE ENDING OF SEGREGATION  , HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.  SOME OF THE DOORS THAT WAS OPENED WERE, REGINITION FROM THE PRESIDENT FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, MRS. ROOSEVELT WAS SO INTREGUED BY THESE HERO'S THAT SHE WENT TO  ALABAMA, AND WANTED A RIDE IN THE PLANE, BECAUSE SHE HEARD NEGROES COULD'NT FLY, THE SECRET SERVICE OBJECTED BUT SHE WENT ANYWAY, AFTER THE RIDE SHE SAID YOU  CAN FLY ALRIGHT. GROWING UP AS A BLACK CHILD , I REMEMBER  HAVING TO ALWAYS  PROVE THAT I COULD DO SOMETHING, SO THESE MEN REALLY DID HAVE TO PROVE THEMSELVES ALL THE TIME.. SOME OF THE THINGS THESE GREAT MEN DID WAS
 DOING THE 2ND. WORLD WAR THESE MEN, COMPLETED, OVER, 15,000 SORTIES, 1,500 MISSIONS, DESTROYED, AND DEMOLISHED 260 ENEMY  AIRCRAFT'S, AND NUMEROUS ENEMY INSTALLATIONS. THESE MEN  WERE AWARDED  SEVERAL MILITARY HONORS INCLUDING DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSSES, LEGION OF MERIT, SILVER STARS, PURPLE HEARTS, THE CROIX DE GUERRE, AND THE RED STAR OF YUGOSLAVIA
     AMONG ALL THE AWARDS THAT I CANT MENTION BECAUSE OF TIME , THE THINGS THAT STAND OUT IN MY MIND , IS THAT THEY BROKE DOWN BARRIORS IN THE MILITARY, IN 1948, PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN  ISSUED AN ORDER TO INTERGRATE THE MILITARY, NAMELY THE AIRFORCES, MAKING IT THE FIRST  MAJOR AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS TO BE DESEGREGATED, MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, AND OTHER BLACKS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY, AMONG THEM IM PROUD TO  TO HAVE A FATHER MR. RALPH B. LONG,  WHO SERVED AROUND THAT TIME, ALSO UNCLES AND MY OLDEST SON TIMOTHY JAMES MORRISON WHO SERVED  IN 1980'S FOR 4 YEARS , AND MAY I ALSO ADD THAT IM STILL SERVING IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD GOD JEHOVAH. LOVE YOU ALL . MIN. SISTER GLADYS MORRISON