Let’s salute Charity Adams Earley, a courageous and trailblazing educator, humanitarian and soldier who made history as the highest-ranking Black woman officer during World War II. Charity led the first African American unit of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) on a tour of duty overseas. Her unit, known as the Six Triple Eight, was assigned to organize and direct a backlog of millions of pieces mail to and from U.S. servicemen. The women worked around the clock in rotating shifts, seven days a week, handling tens of thousands of pieces of mail per day. The Six Triple Eight was given the nearly impossible task of sorting and delivering this mail in six months — they got it done in three. Charity also raised morale for her unit by creating beauty parlors where servicewomen, nurses and Red Cross workers could relax and socialize. In addition to her impressive military career, Charity gave her talents to the Red Cross. She raised money for the organization in college and later started her...