[image: image.png] opening thoughts: Time to take up the mantle of teaching truth/history to power…My old friend is Marilyn Nelson…a world famous poet and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman…I am going to read this poem on the air for my show that airs on Tues and this and other related stories of the Tuskegee Airmen will be shared every Tues thru Jan and February on the Attitude Lonely Eagles For Daniel “Chappie” James, General USAF and for the 332nd Fighter Group. Being black in America was the Original Catch, so no one was surprised by 22: The segregated airstrips, separate camps. They did the jobs they’d been trained to do. Black ground-crews kept them in the air; black flight-surgeons kept them alive; the whole Group removed their headgear when another pilot died. They were known by their names: “Ace” and “Lucky,” “Sky-hawk Johnny,” “Mr. Death.” And by their positions and planes. Red Leader to Yellow Wing-man, do you copy? If you could find a fresh egg you bought it and hid it in your dopp-kit or your boot until you could eat it alone. On the night before a mission you gave a buddy your hiding-places as solemnly as a man dictating his will. There’s a chocolate bar in my Bible; my whiskey bottle is inside my bed-roll. In beat-up Flying Tigers that had seen action in Burma, they shot down three German jets. They were the only outfit in the American Air Corps to sink a destroyer with fighter planes. Fighter planes with names like “By Request.” Sometimes the radios didn’t even work. They called themselves “Hell from Heaven.” This Spookwaffe. My father’s old friends. It was always maximum effort: A whole squadron of brother-men raced across the tarmac and mounted their planes. My tent-mate was a guy named Starks. The funny thing about me and Starks was that my air mattress leaked, and Starks didn’t. Every time we went up, I gave my mattress to Starks and put his on my cot. One day we were strafing a train. Strafing’s bad news: you have to fly so low and slow you’re a pretty clear target. My other wing-man and I exhausted our ammunition and got out. I recognized Starks by his red tail and his rudder’s trim-tabs. He couldn’t pull up his nose. He dived into the train and bought the farm. I found his chocolate, three eggs, and a full fifth of his hoarded-up whiskey. I used his mattress for the rest of my tour. It still bothers me, sometimes: I was sleeping on his breath
Obeying Trump DEI order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from the basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. A video about pathbreaking female aviators was also spiked. *part one:* *I’m an economist. Here’s why I’m worried the California **insurance crisis could trigger broader financial instability *
*GARY W. YOHE is the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University; he has been on the faculty at Wesleyan for more than 30 years. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1975. Most of his work has focused attention on the mitigation and adaptation/impacts sides of the climate issue. He is a senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change* *Part two:*
*part two: How Segregated Are Your Local Private Schools?Jennifer Berry Hawes is a reporter with ProPublica’s South hub who focuses on criminal justice, religion, race and the welfare of women and children. Prior to ProPublica, Hawes worked at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, most recently as a watchdog and public service reporter. She was part of the team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the series “Till Death Do Us Part <postandcourier.com/app/till-death/index.html>,” which examined South Carolina’s failure to protect women from often-fatal domestic abuse. Hawes also was a 2019 Pulitzer finalist for feature writing, along with fellow reporter Deanna Pan, for their series “An Undying Mystery <www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/stinney/>” about the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina. Hawes has written on topics ranging from persistent failures in public education <data.postandcourier.com/saga/minimally-adequate/page/1> to prison violence <www.postandcourier.com/news/how-flaws-in-the-sc-prison-system-led-to-deaths/article_9e0692d6-104b-11ea-8bc4-cbef2dd3c981.html> to racial injustice <www.postandcourier.com/longform/one-sc-mans-journey-to-freedom-after-years-in-modern-day-slavery/article_f0fb3d58-7dfd-11ec-a7f4-2fc0f52d0b94.html>.* — Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Tuskegee Airmen, Air Force, poem Lonely Eagles, Professor Gary Yohe, Wesleyan, banks, climate change, Propublica, Jennifer Berry Hawes, public schools, segregated academies, private schools *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
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