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...DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
...It’s important to find the names and honor the patriots who achieved our nation’s independence,” Joseph W. Dooley, chairman of the SAR’s membership committee, said...
Maria Cole, a member of the Maryland Toaping Castle chapter of the DAR, has traced her ancestry back to two black Revolutionary War soldiers. She said she joined the DAR in 2004 because she felt that the “very least” she could do was honor her ancestors by joining the organization...
...main reason to join [the DAR] is to honor your ancestors,” she said. “They have every right to be honored like everyone else...
...four or five. Sure, the robbers have bragging rights - this was Britain's biggest ever heist - but the unprecedented size of the haul means they faced unprecedented problems. Reducing the bulk became all the more imperative when a ?1.5 million ($2.75 million) reward was offered. There is no honor among thieves. Next, the crooks needed to separate the money from the crime. In the old days, if you sold cocaine in Spain, you wound up with pesetas, which pointed to where the crime was committed. So you prewashed your loot into, say, German marks, and from there moved into dollars...