If you listen to the aggrandizing press releases and the generous media hoopla, you’d think Air Force Major General William T. Lord will go down in history as a “pioneer” who made it possible to “fly and fight in cyberspace.”

Lord is so important to the militarization of cyberspace that he’s even got a bio page on Wikipedia.

Then there’s retired Air Force Colonel Herbert E. Carter. USAF recently published a photo of him titled “Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen.” The caption reads as follows:

Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen

Retired Col. Herbert E. Carter shakes hands with an [unidentified] Airman who he just gave the oath of re-enlistment to Oct. 11 at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala. Colonel Carter is one of the original members of the Tuskegee Airmen and was on hand for the opening of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. Moton Field in the 1940s was the only primary flight training facility for the first African American pilot candidates in the Army Air Corps, these pilots are known as the Tuskegee Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Christine Jones)

Colonel Carter has no bio page on Wikipedia. It appears his pioneering contributions to racial desegregation aren’t as important to society as General Lord’s pioneering contributions to the militarization of cyberspace.

(I don’t have a bio page on Wiki, either. But that’s probably just because I’m a new-generation Tuskegee Airman…)