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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By T. Rees Shapiro / The Bulletin
May 27, 2012
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, a descendant of Virginia slaves who endured racial taunts and merciless hazing to become the first black midshipman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949, died Tuesday at an assisted living center in Silver Spring, Md. He was 85.
He had metastatic....
