NEW YORK — Mallorie Berger said she always knew her late grandfather, Private Mauricio Burns, was a U.S. veteran. But it wasn't until last year she learned about his historic legacy.
"Something clicked. Something led me to believe that, you know what, I think, Papa — that's what we call him — was a Montford Pointer," she said in the ABC Owned Television Stations documentaryEstablished in 1942, the Montford Point Marines, an all-Black, North Carolina-based unit, became this country's first Black marines. Until then, Black men were not allowed to join the Corps."And I said, 'That's me,'" Willis said in the documentary.
Now, Berger and many others are on a mission to find the remaining living Montford Point Marines and the families of the deceased. "We know that there will come a point when there won't be any of them, but we still have to figure out how we keep the story alive," Shinal said in the documentary. Several men also endured hazing, George McIvory, a Montford Pointer, said, adding that after witnessing this, he was"ready to turn around."
"[President Roosevelt] says, 'Men, you have broken records that the white Marines have had for years. Far as I'm concerned, you are just as good a marine as any marine that puts on that uniform. Send them overseas,'" Braxton said.
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