Navy Blue and Other Colors

The book in the main grew out of my experience as one of the first of two African-American women officers in the Navy. Before describing my application acceptance training assignments and friendships in the service I outline my life up to that cruicial point. Birth and early childhood were in Pennsylvania and New York.<br><br> Following my discharge from the service I relate adventures largely growing out of that exposure. The last third of my story includes the happy experience of my second marriage now in its forty-third year--in stark contrast to the first which endured here and in Paris France for less than two months.<br><br> The above was written in 1996. She died in 1998.