This memoir is an interesting odyssey of one man's journey from nigger to Negro to Colored, to Black to African American to U.S. Sailor and finally to plain American. Strapped with determination to see more of the world than his small town Fred sets out on a mission to meet new people, and experience life from a different set of lens. At a time when discrimination was legally tolerated and exercised, Fred Jackson was not wavered by deliberate challenges throughout his military career. The book depicts Fred's pre-military years growing up, military duties and extensive travels, including assignments covering twenty-one years of services scattered over six continents.
Fred takes the reader through the emotions of near death experiences, the irreparable distance and pressure on military families and how inspiration can be found within to press on through adversity. Fred Jackson's ac counting is sometimes humorous, sad inspirational and often presents intriguing anecdotes about living in rural North Carolina in the nineteen forty's and fifty's; as well as the newly desegregated armed forces of the nineteen sixty's and seventy's.
Fred takes the reader through the emotions of near death experiences, the irreparable distance and pressure on military families and how inspiration can be found within to press on through adversity. Fred Jackson's ac counting is sometimes humorous, sad inspirational and often presents intriguing anecdotes about living in rural North Carolina in the nineteen forty's and fifty's; as well as the newly desegregated armed forces of the nineteen sixty's and seventy's.
