AMEN

I think I will pay mental tribute to mr Whitfield who is 3 years in my wake.... However, having "seen" tha war myself.... I`m not that thrilled about the present event (s) , however,,, for mr Whitfield.... It´s my pleasure to hear about you, Sir... Good luck and be careful.... watch your steps.... at our age we are easily broken..... Donah..... the only Navajo ever having flown England´s RAF best fighter plane.....//

To CNN International via Astra 2.... I will be following your coverage live and record anything that will happen.... My regards to all of you n the field... incl. Ralitsa. our anchor woman.... Donah, in the Canaries.... !!

Hi Ralitsa,
My question for Mr. Whitfeld is, "How did he manage to focus and excell in his field, knowing full well that he was serving a country that discriminating against his own?"

Regards
KK

My greatest respect to Mr Whitfiled and all the Tuskegee airman as a military officer I and my brethren truly appreciate what Mr Whitfield and all of the Tuskegee airman did for all Americans fo every race and color. My question for Mr Whitfield is based on what you had to endure how do we get through to the young black men and youths of today. How do we get them to embrace the positive parts of their culture and shed the negative pats that drag them and others down?

Hi Ralitsa
I am truly amazed to read this!I am a Luo currently living in the EU.
I salute you Mr Whitfield.The same programs you set to aid promising young East Africans to study in the USA, also enabled my father to be educated at Michigan state at about the same time as Obama senior in Hawaii!
In fact my father and Obama snr were mates at the then colonial Maseno boys high school ,today Maseno University! The two later returned to East Africa and even met several times as members of respective Kenyan and Tanzanian economic delegations .
My dad watched president Obama's victory and inauguration with pride!
I called home both times to congratulate him on the success of his late friend's son.He told me the current USA president is as brilliant as his father was! So Sir without you all this woud not have happened!
I salute and thank you,may god bless you.
Regards.
Joel.

I caught just a small portion of your interview with the veteran and I was thrilled by his comments about President Obama's Kenyan roots. When he said Obama's father came from the most cultured, most liberal...... ethnic community in Kenya.... (I don't remember the exact words) , he couldn't have been more right! Obama's father's people, the Luos, are the most selfless, open-minded, truthful, courageous and most welcoming lot you can ever come across in Kenya. For years they have been the most vocal when it comes to fairness and transparency in government, a fact that has always put them (and their leaders) in a collision course with the governments that be. As it is now Kenya is being governed by a coalition of two major parties one of which is headed by Mr. Odinga – the man who is a member of parliament in Nairobi, a metropolis, but whose rural home is a few kilometres from senior Obama's homestead – there has been talk that they are related. Odinga's (read Senior Obama's) community are always feared by the other communities because of their love for perfection and transparency in public functions. To be continued...........

a few days later.... and Hi... I ain´t seen anymore entries / comments to the blog abt Pres. Obama´s African (Kenyan) roots.... nada !!
So vod happ´ ?? Has everybody in my wake been skeered off an´ head for the hills ??
Don´t tell me the likes of mrs Koji and Aplyo have no more reason to exploit the true feelings of CNN´s Ralitsa´s mr. Whitfield ?? I salute M. Whitfield for whoever he is, a still living ex member airman of the Tuskegee Air Sqd., or is it Airman Squad ?? I don´t know where Mr Whitfield "did" his WW2, Europe or the Pacific... If he were in the Pacific Theater than he could have been a, (airman) pilot... if he was in Europe, than I doubt if he ever was a fighter or even a bomber pilot or navigator or a glider pilot but one of the crew aiming sgl or dbl .50 cal. turrets to the oncoming ME 109´s or mean FW´s. But Mr. Whitfield did come back from the lousy wars, maybe scatched, maybe unscatched, but he´s still alive and that´s what counts in this world. It´s alright when you´re dead and didn´t make it but that doesn´t mean anything to your present kids and their offsprings. You´ve got to be alive and tell them idiots now that going to war now is quite different from going to war then... We fought an IDIOT then.... now we´re fighting FOR our own IDIOTS ... we´ve got to protect their POCKET MONEY.To Mr. Whitfield I´d say:- I´ll see you for sure... in Pete´s HonkeeTonq Saloon around the corner from His Gate... me sippin´g southern mashed with me ever 2 women, one on vodka, the other on GC rum.... Par Ardua ad Astra mr. Whigfield...
To all others reading this post:- tell me why you shutted up so quickly..... Telly Ho.. Donah!!!!

Mmh. Am Kenya, a neighbour of the Luos (Luhya tribe) and a big fan of Obama.

To Mr. Whitefield, a job well done and a role properly filed. Your integrity and honour created something beautiful. Well done.

As for Donahs comments I think that's way too inflated but I won't go further than that for the total respect that I have for Ralista and her blog.

Well done Ralista. Quite insightful.