On this Independence Day, we are revisiting our 2021 tribute to Chief Master Sergeant Richard Hall, Jr. — longtime Winter Park resident, Tuskegee Airman, and veteran of three wars. There’s a statue of a World War II hero on the west side of Winter Park. As war memorials go, it’s understated: just a life-sized reproduction of a man wearing a red blazer and standing by the front door of the Hannibal Square Heritage Center on New England Avenue. You’d have to have to ask somebody what that blazer stood for to understand the battles, fought and won, that it represents. Maybe it’s better that way. The statue, erected in 2015, is of Chief Master Sergeant Richard Hall, Jr., who was raised in Winter Park and retired to the area after a lengthy military career. He died in January 2021 at the age of 97 as one of the last surviving members of the 332nd Fighter Group. The members of the 332nd are perhaps better known as the legendary Tuskegee Airmen — also dubbed the Red Tails — the country’s first African American military aviators. Head over to our Facebook to read the whole article or find it in our Spring 2021 issue #winterparkfl #winterparkmagazine #hannibalsquare