Sounds like it to me!

“All but two of the soldiers are dead. One, Samuel Snow of Leesburg, Florida, planned to attend the ceremony but wound up in the hospital instead because of a problem with his pacemaker.”

It’s really not a question of being black or gay. Seems anyone joining the military are equally liable to be treated sub-humanly. American history is filled with instances where men have been treated similarly… so why do they keep enlisting? And why do we keep putting up with it, and allowing it to happen? “We the people” are supposed to be in charge, right? I am so sick of this shit.

Black soldiers receive apology for wrongful convictions

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — The Army formally apologized Saturday for the wrongful conviction of 28 black soldiers accused of rioting and lynching an Italian prisoner of war in Seattle, Washington, more than six decades ago.

“We had not done right by these soldiers,” Ronald James, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, said Saturday. “The Army is genuinely sorry. I am genuinely sorry.”

Relatives of the soldiers joined elected officials, military officers and one of the defense lawyers to hear James give the apology before hundreds of people in a meadow near the old Fort Lawton parade grounds and chapel in Discovery Park.

In addition, the soldiers’ convictions were set aside, their dishonorable discharges were changed to honorable discharges and they and their survivors were awarded back pay for their time in the brig.