mr. fontroy. >> i'm the youngest guy up here. >> mr. fontroy, please give us one moment, folks. mr. fontroy, where are you from? >> washington, d.c., columbia hospital for women where i was born. >> ok. >> several years ago. >> not too long ago. >> mr. fontroy what was your inspiration when you first left home? >> we had an officer in the police department here who was an all american football and basketball player and you can look at me and see that i was interested in basketball. >> no doubt. >> yeah. i idolized that gentleman. after my father, he was the greatest man that i knew. he joined the tuskegee airmen shortly after the war started graduated and was killed in an airplane accident in michigan. he was my inspiration. of course, i was just 15 years old when the war started. by the time i turned 17, i decided that i didn't want to go in the navy so i went to 11th and new york avenue to the bus station where they recruited in the army and i, with permission of my mother, asked if i could go in the army air corps and they gave me a test. apparently i passed it, to my mother's sur