Captain Michael Blakley, company commander of Battle Co., 1-32 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, accompanied by Afghan National Army soldiers leads the patrol at the Mullah Omar mosque in Sangsar village in Kandahar province, the heartland of Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Romeo Gacad /AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Eleanor Roosevelt and pilot C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, primary flight instructor at the Tuskegee Institute, 1941. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution hide caption