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I am an american aviator known as the 

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father of black aviation . I earned the 

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nickname chief as chief flight 

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instructor for the tuskegee airman . 

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But we have the who am I event to 

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remind our airmen that there were 

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historical black first that paved the 

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way for them . I wanted to be more 

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interactive , not just a program where 

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something was read or a movie was shown . 

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These airmen actually take on the 

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identity of their characters , They 

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researched them and they act them out 

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because of the color of my skin , which 

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was very common at that time . So I 

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moved to new york and went to school at 

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the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing . 

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I've finished my training in 1950 and 

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10 years later in 1960 , the amount of 

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effort that in time that was put into 

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all of the research historically 

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the actors clearly took seriously all 

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of their efforts to learn the 

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individuals for whom they were 

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portraying and uh and then at the end 

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of the day it was just really nice to 

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um to break away from everything pause 

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uh and and uh and take a knee and to 

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just be able to digest and bring in all 

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of the historical information about who 

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came before us and how they set us up 

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for where we are today . So it was 

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great . It was fantastic now that I 

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think about it . I think it's time for 

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the big question who am I ? 

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I am Alfred Chief 

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Anderson 

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Okay