'I Want to Be an Example'

NATION MILITARY OLYMPICS Pressure grows on Fort Benning McLaughlin edges Cuomo following memorializes soldier Muhammad in harassment probe lynched in 1941 400-meter hurdles Page 9 Page 3 Page 24 Navy could return to using photos for promotions boards ›› Page 4 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 79 ©SS 2021 THURSDAY,AUGUST 5, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK NYC and big employers take hard line on vaccines BY MIKE CATALINI AND KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press New York City, Microsoft, Ty- son Foods and the U.S. auto indus- try joined a cascading number of state and local governments and major employers Tuesday that are taking a hard line against both the surging delta variant and the hold- outs who have yet to get vaccinated. “The goal here is to convince ev- eryone that this is the time. If we’re going to stop the delta variant, the time is now. And that means getting vaccinated right now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in an- USAFA Association of Graduates Webguy nouncing that New York will de- Tanner Johnson’s fiancee, Brynn Woodyard, pins on his second lieutenant bars at the commissioning ceremony for Cadet Squadron 14 at the mand people show proof of CO- U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on May 25. VID-19 vaccination at indoor res- taurants, shows and gyms. The hard-line measure — the first such step taken by a big U.S. city — goes into effect in mid-Au- ‘I want to be an example’ gust. Vaccination cards or state and city apps will be accepted as proof of inoculation. Meanwhile, meat and poultry A year after doctors said he wouldn’t be allowed to commission, giant Tyson Foods said it will re- quire all of its approximately Air Force Academy graduate with diabetes joins the Space Force 120,000 U.S. employees to get the shot over the next three months. BY KARIN ZEITVOGEL Type 1 diabetes usually affects the rest of my life, I would not be Microsoft will demand that its Stars and Stripes young children and runs in fam- able to fly, I would not be allowed roughly 100,000 U.S. employees — year before Tanner ilies, but none of Johnson’s rela- in the military, and wouldn’t be al- as well as visitors and others — Johnson was due to tives were diabetic. He was nearly lowed to return to the academy show proof of vaccination starting graduate from the U.S. 22 when he was diagnosed in May and graduate,” Johnson said. in September. AAir Force Academy in 2020, two months after most ca- But he refused to accept what And an estimated 150,000 Colorado, he was lying in a hospi- dets had been sent home as the a- they said and set out to prove them unionized workers at the big three tal bed and doctors were telling cademy scrambled to contain the wrong. He hoped to become the U.S. automakers will have to go his family he had two hours to live. fast-spreading coronavirus. first person to be commissioned back to wearing masks starting His organs were shutting down Johnson pulled through the into the U.S. military with a med- Wednesday, while nonunion due to complications caused by worst of the health crisis and be- ical condition that, up until then, Tanner Johnson Toyota, with a U.S. workforce of Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune gan to deal with his new reality. was automatically disqualifying. Johnson shows the continuous about 36,000, said it will do like- condition where the body attacks “The doctors said I would have glucose monitor he wears to the cells that make insulin. to take insulin shots every day for SEE GRADUATE ON PAGE 4 check his blood sugar. SEE VACCINES ON PAGE 8 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, August 5, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER NLRB finding revives labor organizing at Amazon EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,141.55 Associated Press for a hearing officer to call for a erced choice in the election,” not Switzerland (Franc) 0.9026 Euro costs (Aug. 5) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 33.09 NEW YORK — A recommen- new election but in the case of whether it in fact coerced em- Dollar buys (Aug. 5) 0.8202 Turkey (NewLira) 8.4376 British pound (Aug. 5) 0.6993 dation to nullify the election re- Amazon, there’s a good chance it ployees, according to the prelim- Japanese yen (Aug. 5) 106.00 (Military exchange rates are those available sults of an Amazon union vote in will happen since the NLRB re- inary 61-page opinion filed by South Korean won (Aug. 5) 1,116.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger Bessemer, Ala., is breathing new gional director usually sticks the hearing officer, Kerstin many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) 0.3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur life into the labor movement. with the hearing officer’s guid- Meyers. Britain (Pound) 0.7168 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2533 your local military banking facility. Commercial The recommendation was is- ance. “The evidence demonstrates China (Yuan) 6.4565 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.2532 sued Monday by a hearing offi- Moreover, the labor board’s that the employer’s conduct in- Egypt (Pound) 15.7001 when buying currency. All figures are foreign cer for the National Labor Rela- standards in determining a new terfered with the laboratory con- Euro 0.8409 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7758 pound, which is represented in dollarsto tions Board, who said that Ama- election favors the union, not ditions necessary to conduct a Hungary (Forint) 297.62 pound, and the euro, which is dollarstoeuro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2062 zon potentially interfered with Amazon. fair election,” Meyers wrote. Japan (Yen) 108.84 INTEREST RATES the April election in which ware- The board needs to only figure Still, labor experts predict that Kuwait (Dinar) 0.3002 Norway (Krone) 8.7819 Prime rate 3.25 house workers overwhelmingly out whether the company “rea- any final outcome could take Philippines (Peso) 49.70 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.81 Federal funds market rate 0.09 rejected a proposal to unionize. sonably tended to interfere with months, with lots of appeals Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7503 3month bill 0.05 Labor experts say that it’s rare the employees’ free and unco- from both sides. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3478 30year bond 1.85 WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY IN EUROPE FRIDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 78/72 Kabul Seoul 90/56 90/75 Baghdad 114/84 Tokyo Drawsko Osan Kandahar 91/75 86/72 Mildenhall/ Pomorskie Busan 99/66 Lakenheath 71/56 70/57 84/78 Iwakuni 81/78 Kuwait City Bahrain Brussels Zagan Sasebo Guam 112/91 100/93 Ramstein 69/56 72/58 68/53 88/77 84/81 Lajes, Riyadh Stuttgart 109/83 Doha Azores Pápa 73/70 68/56 113/87 Aviano/ 66/63 Vicenza 76/62 Naples 83/76 Morón Okinawa 84/81 99/65 Sigonella Rota 101/71 Souda Bay The weather is provided by the Djibouti 81/69 American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/84 87/80 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified .................... 13 Comics .........................15 Crossword ................... 15 Faces .......................... 14 Opinion ........................ 16 Sports .................... 17-24 Thursday, August 5, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY Fort Benning memorializes lynched soldier BY COREY DICKSTEIN Northeastern University Law Stars and Stripes School’s Civil Rights and Restora- FORT BENNING, Ga. — It was tive Justice project, which memo- more than 80 years ago that Pvt. rialized some 1,100 killings in the Felix Hall, an outgoing teenage Jim Crow south motivated by soldier training to serve his coun- race, including Hall’s. try in war, disappeared as he Army officials acknowledged at made the short walk from his the time that its top leaders did not workplace on Fort Benning to- know of Hall’s story. Even Bishop, ward the Blacks-only section of who has represented Fort Ben- the segregated Georgia Army ning’s district since 1993, was un- post. aware of the killing or that any Hall’s body, bound at the hands lynching had ever occurred at the and feet and already beginning to base. decompose, would not be located He was made aware of Hall’s for six weeks, hanged from a small story only when a constituent, a tree in a shallow ravine in a wood- former soldier, reached out to ask ed section of Fort Benning’s train- what was being done to remember ing grounds less than a mile from Hall in the years after reading The where he was last seen. The 19- Washington Post story. The an- year-old had been the victim of a swer at that time was simple — lynching — the only one known to nothing. have ever occurred on U.S. mili- Now, Bishop hopes soldiers and tary grounds, and likely at the others who spend time at Fort hands of his fellow soldiers. Benning will visit the marker not- For the first time, the Army is ing Hall’s tragic death. Fort Ben- telling Hall’s story by erecting a ning has erected a temporary historical marker Tuesday at the marker in the wooded area where location where on Feb.

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