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7/26/2006 - "Men of Honor" Navy Diver Dies

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    Carl M. Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy diver who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2000 film "Men of Honor," died Tuesday. He was 75.  Brashear died at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Virginia) of respiratory and heart failure.

 

    Brashear faced an uphill battle when he joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of 17, not long after the U.S. military desegregated.  In 1954, he was accepted and graduated from the diving program, despite daily battles with discrimination, including hate notes being left on his bunk.  See Full Story

 

 

carl brashear with cuba gooding jr.

 

 

   
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