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Author Message   Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3254 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 11:27 am:        http://nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/10/moton-field-ceremony-highlights-grand-o pening-tuskegee-airmen-national-historic-site   Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 3456 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 09:25 pm:        I've met a number of Tuskegee airmen before. It's an honor to met the remainder of these American heroes. I also seen General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (the Tuskegee Airman 332d Fighter Group commanding officer) in person. I was supposed to take my book (his autobiography) to his hotel room the next day and have him autograph it. I failed to do so. I regret that to this very day. Thank God I taped his lecture. When General Davis retired in 1970, he held the rank of Lieutenant General, but on 9 December 1998, President Clinton awarded him a fourth star. This raised him to the rank of full general of the US Air Force. He passed away 04 July 2002.