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Cookie?

posted 20 years ago by ferriscj24
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I have seen this movie a few times, and I must say i really enjoy it. But I can never pick up where the name "Cookie" came from...can anyone help me out?

[–] trirays 20 years ago

The name Cookie most probably came from COOK-IE, as Brashear used to be a cook in the navy.

[–] bumble_bee_mouth 20 years ago

In WWII blacks were only allowed to be cooks in the navy, they were all called cookie.

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[–] brynerma 19 years ago

no, blacks were also used in the storm of the beaches in the normandy

That was the Army. We're talking about the Navy here.

[–] flyboy87 19 years ago

Not only did he get the wrong service, but his statement is flat out wrong. Less than 1% of the soldiers involved in the D-day invasion were black, and most of those were in rear-echelon units (engineers, truck drivers, etc). Because of the segregation at the time, only whites were assigned to combat units, and therefore only whites were in the first wave. I'm not trying to belittle the efforts of black troops (the Red Ball Express damn near won the war for the Allies), but it's true. Rumors of black troops being sent out first as cannon fodder on D-Day are just that - rumors - and probably meant to incite racial issues.

[–] flyer333555 17 years ago

Where the heck YOU learned this? Reread your history, TROLL!

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[–] runnerludd 19 years ago

I think so to ! He was originally a cook.

[–] LauraDV3 19 years ago

My friend, it means that at that time the color people could only be cook's or to serve officials with high ranks. Cookie comes from the word cook.

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[–] kissieface 19 years ago

I want to thank you guys for clearing that up for me too. I always thought him being called a cookie was kinda calling him soft or p**** I know thats vaulgar but it is the military. Not the girl scouts. Another thing I'm sure blacks would have been there front and center in WW2 if they were given the oppurtunity.Beside Cuba was a dishwasher in Pearl Harbor he kicked ass there.

[–] elitematrix_zuiwesidle 19 years ago

he was just called cookie because he was a cook first

[–] MeiLing_1982 17 years ago

Cuba played, in Pearl Harbor, the part of Doris (Dorie) Miller who was a black cook on the USS West Virginia, who in the heat of battle took over an anti-aircraft gun, which he had not been trained for, and possibly shot down at least one Japanese plane. For his actions that day, he became the first American of African descent to be awarded the Navy Cross. He died two years later in another WWII battle when his ship was torpedoed.