“She was the love of his life,” recalled Major L. Anderson III, 70, the older of their two sons. “She came home from the hospital for hospice care, and he looked after her day and night,” the son recalled. Keith Anderson, 65, the younger of the two sons, recalled his father as being “the personification of what you call a distinguished gentleman. And even if their father had been among those men, his sons knew he would never have mentioned it — or any other racial incidents in his life. “He’d say don’t rest on your laurels,” his older son said.

Source: Washington Post March 30, 2021 21:33 UTC