11-16-2011, 02:10 PM
All that being said, the Montford Point Marines did do something very brave. They put themselves in a position to be harshly treated by a segregated military that as likely didn't want them there as did. (Not to mention the possibility of going to war.) I was apprehensive enough going to boot camp in 1995; I can't imagine what they were feeling. One thing is for sure, the contributions and steadfast devotion that the black members of the military showed during WWII (before and since) helped tremendously to right the wrong of Jim Crow and other institutionalized racism of America at that time.