THANK YOU FOR PUBLISHING the story of baseball great Jackie Robinson’s court-martial in 1944 [“Leveling the Playing Field,” August 2021]. Not only did the story reveal the bravery of one of my heroes, it also gave readers a glimpse into what Black soldiers had to endure to serve their country during World War II. Historian Stephen Ambrose noted the lamentable American irony of it, writing in his book, , “The world’s greatest democracy fought the world’s greatest racist with a segregated army.” It also made me think of my late Uncle Dewey, who died in 2006 at the age of 81. “We had to fight two wars,” he told
