Tuskegee Claim Prompts Review of Veterans Home

TYLER (AP) – A spokesman for Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson says a review will determine whether the name of a man who supposedly served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen should be removed from a new state veterans home. Press secretary Jim Suydam told the Tyler Morning Telegraph that inquiries will be made as a result of a report by the newspaper raising questions about the military service claimed by Samuel M. Garrison Jr. Garrison, who died last May at the age of 88, was honored posthumously with the Watkins-Logan-Garrison Texas State Veterans Home in Tyler. But a report by the Morning Telegraph Friday detailed how there are no records to substantiate his claim that he was part of the famed group of black pilots who fought in World War II.