USA Today – After Pearl Harbor: Changed Lives – “The ghosts of Dec. 7 still haunt thousands” – A legacy of guilt and punishment, a crime we didn’t commit. By David Masumoto. And, “What if all were equal that day at Pearl Harbor?” – The Navy’s color bar didn’t stop heroism but did limit U.S. defense capabilities. By Frank Harris III. On Dec.7, 1941, Doris “Dorrie” Miller, a black man, “stepped out of his place,” took over a “whites only” machine gun and blasted several Japanese warplanes from the sky. In manning that gun, Miller not only became the first U.S. hero of WWII but also caused a quandary among our nation’s policymakers...etc.