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Show 0 6 Lump Time 1 2002 Juiy Pioneering Tuskegee Airman receives final honors and how Davis worked to earn them. "Black men, brown men, yellow men, red men and women of ail colors could not acquire those attributes through birth. ... They had to earn them," Melville said. "Ben understood these rules of American politics, and he was determined to overcome them. Not by demonstrating, not by denouncing, not by complaining, not by whining, but by succeeding. "He was determined to succeed. This is what motivated him. He tried to instill in each of his officers the need to show by example that they were just as good as anybody else, and maybe even better." At Arlington National Cemetery, as is military tradition, a horse pulled Davis' casket on a caisson to the gravesite. Tuskegee Airmen served as honorary pallbearers. During the Arlington service, the Air Force courhonor guard rendered the tesies to a hero passed: a cannon salute, a lone bugler playing taps and the passing of the American flag to the next of kin. Davis' memory was also honored with a herMustang itage flyover, including a vintage painted in the Tuskegee Airmen's flying colors, Fighting Falcons and Eagles. The fliers paid tribute to their fallen comrade and leader with a missing man formation, traditionally reserved for military aviators killed in the line WASHINGTON Friends, family, military and retired military members gathered July 17 to pay tribute and lay to rest an Air Force pioneer. Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis Jr., the first African-America- n Air Force general, was remembered in a memorial service at the Bulling AFB chax l here. Alter the ci remuny, lie was buried at Arlii n National Cemetery with full military honors. Davis died July 4 at Waiter Keed Army Medical Center of natural causes. He was 89. Alan Gropnian, chairman of the Grand Strategy Department at National Defense University here, delivered the eulogy. Many of those in attenig-to- dance wore the distinctive red jackets of the members of the units Davis Tuskegee Airmen commanded during and after World War II. "Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis Jr. is an American hero," Gropman said. "We call those who demon- strate physical courage heroes because they risk their lives for something bigger than themselves. "General Davis risked his life for his nation and for his people. He believed all his adult life in racial integration and thought he could bring this essential reform to America once World War II began. If he demonstrated blacks could fly and fight and lead with the same skill and courage as whites, a notion foreign to white America of 1941, he believed he could destroy the myth of time-honor- P-5-1 F-1- racial inferiority. F-1- 6 5 of duty. Davis' survivors include his sister, Elnora D. McLendon, and many nieces and nephews. 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