Sat 6 Jun 2009
The Last Man Returns to the Beach
Posted by jimbelshaw under Conversations
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On the front page of today’s Times is a remarkable story.
From the story: “As a member of the only all-black unit in the D-Day landings on Omaha and Utah, the two beachheads assigned to American forces, Corporal William G. Dabney was a rarity in a European war that in its early days was fought almost entirely by whites.”
We tend to forget what these then young men did. We rarely, if ever, consider the notion of “all-black” units, and then realize what they faced when they came home.
Mr. Dabney is the last of his D-Day kind. I’m glad to see him on the front page of the Times.
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