Decorated World War II veteran and pioneering civil rights lawyer Johnnie Jones Sr. has died at the age of 102
"We are saddened by the news of the passing," the Louisiana Department of Veteran Affairs posted on social media Monday."It was our distinct honor to care for Mr. Jones at our Louisiana Veterans Home where he lived since this past December.""We will always be grateful to have played a part in awarding him the Purple Heart he deserved for his injury in combat," the LDVA said.
Jones later said the explosion,"blew me sky high into the air." Later in the war, he was hit with shrapnel during a bomb attack. And he would face racism when he returned to the US.While driving in 1946 to New Orleans to get shrapnel removed from his neck, he was pulled over by a White police officer," according to the VA's blog post. "He knocked me down and started kicking me," Jones said to the VA in an interview."Things weren't right.
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