Contributor(s): Author: Alfred K.
Earning a.
Air Force.
At 17, he enlisted in the U.
S.
Lying in his bed late at night and looking up at the sky through the holes in the tin roof of his four-room home perched among the tobacco fields of eastern North Carolina, he just yearned to find some way out of poverty.
Flowers Growing up in a family of sharecroppers in the segregated South in the 1950s and \'60s, Al Flowers never dreamed of becoming a history-maker.
Contributor(s): Author: Alfred K