The Marines Reluctantly Let a Sikh Officer Wear a Turban. He Says It’s Not Enough.

Agreed!

I see a beard on him, as is the case with every Sikh I've ever seen.

Sikh's have been serving along side of us since WWI

And bravely they have served, this soldier being a member of one of the Indian Army Bn’s when India was still part of the British Empire. No one disputes their military acumen, or gallantry on the field, but could I have served as a rank and file soldier minus a beard and turbin, or not be a Sikh.

GySgt Charles O'Connell - Again Bhagat Singh Thind (October 3, 1892 – September 15, 1967) was an Indian American writer and lecturer on spirituality who served in the United States Army during World War I and was involved in a Supreme Court case over the right of Indian people to obtain United States citizenship.

Thind enlisted in the United States Army a few months before the end of World War I. After the war he sought to become a naturalized citizen, following a legal ruling that Caucasians had access to such rights[citation needed]. In 1923, the Supreme Court ruled against him in the case United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, which retroactively denied all Indian Americans the right to obtain United States citizenship for failing to meet the definition of a "white person", "person of African descent", or "alien of African nativity".[1][2]

Thind remained in the United States, earned his PhD in theology and English literature at UC Berkeley, and delivered lectures on metaphysics. His lectures were based on Sikh religious philosophy, but included references to the scriptures of other world religions and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau. Thind also campaigned for Indian independence from colonial rule. In 1936, Thind applied successfully for United States citizenship through the State of New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh_Thind

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