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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Nov 25, 2020, 06:25 PM Nov 2020

Tuskegee Airman Dies on 100th Birthday

Hat tip, WTOP, but I can't find an article on their website. There has been some confusion about the medal.

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TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

Tuskegee Airman Dies on 100th Birthday

By NBCWashington Staff • Published November 24, 2020 • Updated on November 25, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Tuskegee Airman and longtime D.C. resident Walter Robinson Sr. passed away on his 100th birthday Monday.

On Sunday, friends and family held a birthday celebration outside his home in Northeast D.C.

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CORRECTION (Nov. 25, 2020, 12:00 p.m. ET): An earlier version of this story, reported that Robinson was awarded the Tuskegee Airman Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush. However, President Bush awarded the Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen as a collective.
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