I agree with you all. That they should do so much for a country that valued them so little speaks volumes about their character; that they did it so well tells of their ability, so disparaged by ignorant men. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. ARUP, you're a lucky guy to have been able to do what you did there.
Now if you can get your hands on the PBS documentary, you'll hear about a fellow who was from Sewickley, PA, just a few miles from where I live. He'd had to go to the ramshackle "Colored" YMCA instead of the very nice one for the rest of us, and he wasn't allowed to caddy at the country club, etc. Well, he became a member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war he was piloting a B24, and having flown east from somewhere in Indiana, realized he was close to his old home town. And so, it is spoken of to this day - he went a little further east, dropped it down on the deck, and came roaring back west at treetop height over the Country Club and the town on the riverbank. I have an elderly friend who was a schoolkid back then and he recalls it vividly- people screaming, taking cover, women pulling their children off the street. Oh, he got his - and there was no way to tell who it was!
Now in the Sewickley Cemetery, there is a special memorial to the Tuskegee Airmen, as a disproportionate number of whom are from the Pittsburgh area and the Sewickley area in particular. And every Memorial Day, the Air Force sends a plane to re-fly the route, and Sewickley gets buzzed again!
I've told this before here, I'm pretty sure, but enjoy it anyway!