photos of Cross here... scroll down
Photos 2, 3, and 4.
http://www.caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com/?tag=sl&paged=2
wicked pice of history dey vb
funny enough I clicked on the Johnny Smythe link (sitting next to Ulric) and get ah decent link to some more history
This lil tidbit was funny:
"When we were coming into India on our ship, rumours went round among the Indians: "The Africans are coming! They are cannibals; they chop [eat] people; they have tails!" So when we went to bathe in the streams, people asked us not to take our pants off - our blue PT pants - in case they would be frightened by our tails! Then the British authorities themselves began to spread the story: "We are bringing in the Africans. When they catch you, they will chop you alive" (laughs) This was the best way they had of putting fear into the Japanese."
You would be shocked at the concept some ppl STILL have in this day and age.
Remember meeting a Sri Lankan girl who was goin out with a black guy. Her family tell her black ppl doh bathe and like to have sex every day. At one point early in the relationship she actually tell de man she think dey have to break up becz sh didn't think she could "meet his sexual needs as a black man."
Now if you knwo this girl she is the sweetest person.But she just didn't have a clue about black ppl except what her family tell her.
In Afghanistan they have told the locals that white ppl have tails like the devil. And I was told by an ex Talib that once when they had killed some soldiers they was looking for the tail but couldn't find any.
