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Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83
A salute to him. For being a trailblazer. "Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers’ club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant, but who endured to become the first black aviator and the first...