PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Mase on June 09, 2016, 11:54:47 AM
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…At Arlington (http://www.stripes.com/news/us/first-active-duty-gold-medal-winner-tuskegee-airman-buried-at-arlington-1.413831)
"His nickname was "Marvelous Mal." And those who gathered Wednesday at the National Cathedral to remember the 91-year-old Olympic track star, Air Force tail gunner and U.S. sports ambassador came from every chapter of his big-screen life: a comrade from the renowned African American Tuskegee Airmen, a Kenyan running protege turned Olympic gold medalist, old State Department buddies, and his daughter, CNN news anchor Fredricka Whitfield, his 83-year-old widow, and other relatives."