Florida Senate - 2020 (NP) SR By Senator Broxson 1-02495A-20 20201904__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. Senate Resolution A resolution remembering the outstanding service of the late General Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and throughout all of his distinguished military career, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. 6

WHEREAS, Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., was born on February 8 11, 1920, in Pensacola, not far from the current site of Naval Air Station Pensacola, and

WHEREAS, Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., grew up under the watchful eyes of his father, Daniel James, Sr., an employee of the Pensacola city gas company, and his mother, Lillie Anna James, a high school teacher who established a private school for her own and other African-American children in Pensacola, 15 and

WHEREAS, in 1937, Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., enrolled at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and quickly made a name for himself as an athlete and as a campus leader, and

WHEREAS, with the beginning of World War II, Daniel 20 “Chappie” James, Jr., seized the opportunity afforded by Tuskegee University to pursue his dream of flying as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, and

WHEREAS, Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., graduated from Tuskegee University in with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education and, in July 1943, earned his commission as a second lieutenant, becoming one of the first African-American pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, and

WHEREAS, in 1949, Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., received the 29