Death
His wife Agatha died in early 2002 and General Davis, who was 89 and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, followed shortly after, dying on July 4, 2002 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.. General Davis was buried July 17, 2002 at Arlington National Cemetery. A Red Tail P-51 Mustang, similar to the one he had flown in World War II, flew overhead during funeral services. Bill Clinton said, "General Davis is here today as living proof that a person can overcome adversity and discrimination, achieve great things, turn skeptics into believers; and through example and perseverance, one person can bring truly extraordinary change".
Read more about this topic: Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Not one death but many,
not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is
the law”
—Charles Olson (1910–1970)
“Life without a friend is death without a witness.”
—Spanish proverb.
“The death ... of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)