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Attitude Is Still Altitude For This Tuskegee Airman As He Turns 100 Years Old
« on: July 11, 2023, 10:33:03 am »
Attitude Is Still Altitude For This Tuskegee Airman As He Turns 100 Years Old
July 10, 2023 | By David Roza

On July 13, retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Harvey III will celebrate his 100th birthday, the latest milestone for an original Tuskegee Airman who also won the first ever ‘Top Gun’ trophy and was one of the first African American fighter jet pilots.

Though Harvey’s days in the cockpit are over, he takes on aging with the same attitude he applied to the stick and throttle.

“Being old doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a number,” Harvey told Air & Space Forces Magazine. “It’s your attitude: you have to keep a positive attitude about everything. If you do that, you’re all right. And have a sense of humor. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you’re dead in the water.”

Harvey’s journey to the Air Force began as a child when a formation of P-40 fighters buzzed over his hometown of Nuangola Station in northeast Pennsylvania.

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Attitude Is Still Altitude For This Tuskegee Airman As He Turns 100 Years Old
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2023, 10:38:00 am »
Wow.

Absolutely phenomenal.

Still good looking at 100:


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