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Three Tuskegee Airmen members wearing red jackets, sit among the audience during a ceremony, August 6, 2008 inside the Pentagon Auditorium, hosted by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, not shown, honoring the 60th Anniversary commemorating the signing of Executive Orders 9980 and 9981. The orders were signed in 1948 to desegregrate the armed forces and the federal civil service.
060808-A-YG824-012.JPG Photo By: Petty Officer 2nd Class Molly A. Burgess, U.S. Navy

Pentagon Auditorium, Arlington, VA - Three Tuskegee Airmen members wearing red jackets, sit among the audience during a ceremony, August 6, 2008 inside the Pentagon Auditorium, hosted by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, not shown, honoring the 60th Anniversary commemorating the signing of Executive Orders 9980 and 9981. The orders were signed in 1948 to desegregrate the armed forces and the federal civil service.


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