Not too important historical (fairly recent) fact about Iceland.

I was being drafted in March, 1968. Draft board relented and allowed me to join the Navy. I ended up in the Naval Security Group (name has been changed several times since.) NSG had a base in Reykjavík, Iceland. I was not stationed there, nor did I ever set foot in Iceland.

Interesting fact about Iceland. Under no damn circumstance could a Negro set foot in Iceland. The US Naval Security Group (or any other military or other organization put a Negro in Iceland, not even on a military base.)

And Iceland was severe about it. A military flight might ocassionally fly from/to Europe from/to the US. If that plane had a Negro on it the Negro had to remain on the plane. If there were extreme reasons that the Negro change planes, the Negro left the first plane and walked without pausing, escorted to the second plane.

Just a Saturday remembering. I bet things are different now.

Mike