Honoring the Tuskegee Airmen
Photos by Emily Reynolds
President Bush, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader John Boehner, speak during a ceremony honoring the Tuskegee Airmen in the Capitol Rotunda March 29, 2007. All volunteers, they were the first black military airmen in America and fought in World War II but were still widely discriminated against. President Bush saluted the Airmen during the ceremony, “For all the unreturned salutes and unforgivable indignities,” endured during their service.
