The "Tuskegee Airmen," who had one of the most exemplary records of all the fighter escort groups in WWII, came back to find their war exploits, for the most part, had not made their lives as civilians much different, nor opened up many opportunities. The recent movie, "Devil in a Blue Dress" portrayed a returning black war hero who finds himself and his service count for nothing in trying to find a job in post WWII Los Angeles. In southeast Texas in the 1940's and '50's I saw gas stations with three rest rooms; "Men, Women & Colored." Black people sat in the back of the bus and lived across the tracks, not to be seen on the white side of town after sundown. It is not surprising that, in those times, the government, pandering to those worst instincts "out of the ugly necessities of war" should put forth such a policy. That part of our past may be ugly, but the past does not have to be prologue. Ask our new President.