Pioneering Montford Point Marines are honored in Florida

Pioneering Montford Point Marines are honored in Florida
By Matt Soergel
The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville
Published: May 3, 2013

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Growing up, Leroy Jones Jr.’s five children couldn’t ever forget their father had been a Marine. There was his strictness, his preaching about the work ethic, about staying in shape, about putting your family first.

Then there was his insistence on getting up early — really early — in the morning. “Don’t let the sun bore a hole in you,” he’d say, dragging them out of bed.

“You could always tell he was a Marine,” said his son Oscar, 56.

“Everything a Marine’s got, he’s got,” said his oldest son, Carl, 58.

On Thursday afternoon, Leroy Jones Jr. got the highest civilian honor that the country gives, as he and fellow Marine Vincent Calhoun, 87, were awarded Congressional Gold Medals in a ceremony at Jacksonville City Hall.
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Last year I was able to interview one of these veterans. Charles O. Foreman.