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Before and after her first-round victory at the U.S. Open, Naomi Osaka wore a mask bearing the name of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police. It s just one of seven face coverings, each in honor of a different person, that Osaka brought to Flushing Meadows - the same number of wins it takes to claim a Grand Slam trophy. The world s highest-earning female athlete hopes she can get the chance to raise awareness about racial injustice by using each mask during her stay in New York. It s quite sad that seven masks isn t enough for the amount of names, so hopefully I ll get to the finals so you can see all of them, said Osaka, the champion at the 2018 U.S. Open and 2019 Australian Open. Naomi Osaka, of Japan, wears a mask in honor of Br stanley cup eonna Taylor before her match agains stanley cup t Misaki Doi, of Japan, during the first round of the US Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in New York. Frank Franklin / AP stanley cup I m aware that tennis is watched all over the world, and maybe there is someone that doesn t know Breonna Taylor s story. Maybe they ll, like, Google it or something, Osaka said. For me, it s about just spreading awareness. I feel like the more people know the story, then the more interesting or interested they ll become in it. On the court, she overcame some uneven play late Monday night to beat 81st-ra Kyga Entire town evacuated due to Washington state wildfire
This 94-year-old s journey from Pennsylvania all the way to a tiny grave in Cologne, Germany, is deeply personal. I m sorry Katharina. I never forget you, whispered Clarence Smoyer.He never met Katharina Esser. Yet, always feared her death might be his fault. What were you thinking when you were at her grave asked correspondent Seth D adidas campus oane. I ask her forgiveness if it was my shot that harmed her, Smoyer replied. Clarence Smoyer, a gunner with the U.S. Army s Third Armored Division, in Europe during World air max War II. CBS News It was a shot that still haunts him, more than 70 years after he fired it in World War II. Clarence Smoyer. CBS News At the time, Smoyer was a gunner with the U.S. Army s 3rd Armored Division. He d come ashore in Normandy three weeks after D-Day, criss-crossed France and Belgium, and in March of 1945, the fight to capture the key city of Cologne lay ahead: Our lieutenant got on the radio and he said, Gentlemen, I give you Cologne. Let s knock the hell out of it, Smoyer said.Incredibly, Army photographer Jim Bates, who was documenting the Allied advance, filmed Smoyer s Pershing tank in a battle with a German Panzer ndash; a figh jordan t that s now seared into Smoyer s mind: I saw movement over my |
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