Elaine Thompson
George Hickman peers out at a basketball game where he ushers at the University of Washington on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, in Seattle. Hickman, 84, is one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military pilots and air maintenance personnel who fought in World War II. He and dozens of the approximately 330 living Tuskegee Airmen are taking Obama up on his invitation to attend next week's inauguration. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
