"It's because of men like Calvin Spann that we're not
speaking German or Japanese today."
Source: Shea Oakley, executive director of the
Teterboro-based New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum. Spann
-- one of nearly 1,000 black men who graduated from the Tuskegee
Army Air Field in Tuskegee, AL, between 1942 and 1946 -- was
recently inducted into the museum's hall of fame.