Today is the day to remember our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who paid the ultimate price for our liberty.  Just like the civilian society, military organizations were not always perfect.  While our nation was fighting Fascism in WWII, our military units were segregated.  Many of us may regard the military as traditionalist organizations.  Surprisingly, the US Army desegregated its units years before Brown v. Board of Education.  Why?  Not because the Army was ahead of the rest of the society in terms of "social justice."  Because segregation was bad for combat effectiveness.  The military is the ultimate meritocracy.  Our enemy's bullets do not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or the "adversity score" of our soldiers.

Let us remember the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American combat pilots who fought for a country that treated them as lower class citizens only because of the color of their skin.  Let us remember the brave men of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, the most decorated US Army unit in WWII, composed of Americans of Japanese descent, who took heavy casualties for a country that interned an entire population of their ethnicity.  We shall forever remember their sacrifices.

God bless America.