“One thing’s for sure. We fought for our country, and several of my friends died for these United States. In 1952, I was back in the States on a military base in South Carolina. Some of my friends and I were gonna go to Georgia. We drove, in uniform, of course. Then we stopped at some diner somewhere on the border between South Carolina and Georgia. No sooner did we set foot in the restaurant than a woman came up to the highest-ranking man in our group and said, ‘White in front, black around back.’ ‘You cannot be serious,’ said the sergeant. ‘Are you telling me these soldiers who just got back
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