By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jul 18, 2007 20:56:27 EDT
NAVAL BASE CORONADO, Calif. — Bernard L. Jackson was a junior naval officer with plans for a short career when he happened on a professional conference in Memphis, Tenn., an annual meeting of the National Naval Officers Association.
It became a life-defining moment.
At that conference, Jackson met Navy and other sea service officers of different races and ethnic backgrounds. Among them were senior officers wearing eagles and stars on their collars. Jackson, a black officer, saw himself in them.
“They looked like me walking around, and they talked to me,” said Jackson, now a captain. “They talked to me, and that made a difference.”
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