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    Labeled a mutineer during WWII, this 101-year-old Black soldier went on to the stars

    LOS ANGELES -- Bernard Benedict James had news for the caller, who rang the retired aerospace engineer with birthday wishes this week. "One hundred one is a prime number, as we say in mathematics," James said with a chuckle. A piece of chocolate cake with mounds of white frosting waited on a nearby table. He paused for a beat and continued, dead serious, "The first 100 years are the hardest." ...
    by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times Feb 11, 2022 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES -- Bernard Benedict James had news for the caller, who rang the retired aerospace engineer with birthday wishes this week.

    "One hundred one is a prime number, as we say in mathematics," James said with a chuckle. A piece of chocolate cake with mounds of white frosting waited on a nearby table. He paused for a beat and continued, dead serious, "The first 100 years are the hardest."

    The stocky, white-haired centenarian in dress shirt and wheelchair laughed and laughed. On Monday, James turned 101.

    There's a U.S. Army veterans hat near the dining room table in James' La Mirada home, a sign that he is part of the Greatest Generation, men and women who served during World War II. Although 16 million Americans served in that war, about 240,300 WWII veterans are alive today, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. An estimated 234 die each day.

    James should have been part of the U.S. forces that invaded

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