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Feb. 15, 2019
The Halt and the Blind
Richard Wirick reviews “Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring.”
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
Isaac Woodard was an Army sergeant in Pacific Theater WWII. An African-American, he served in the still-segregated, though post-Truman military. While unloading ships off Papua New Guinea, in the heat of Japanese fire, he showed bravery extraordinary enough to win a battle star. Wearing his uniforms after his discharge, the 26-year-old boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia, on his way home to South Carolina. An hour or two into the journey, he asked the Greyhound driver t...
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