Joe Louis remembered on 25th anniversary of his death

ARLINGTON (Virginia): With the laying of a wreath and the playing of taps, Joe Louis was remembered at Arlington National Ceremony on Wednesday on the 25th anniversary of the boxing great’s death. 

Family and friends gathered at Louis’ grave, beneath the long branches of a splendid oak tree not far from America’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Brown Bomber, the nickname etched on his tombstone, was remembered as a black sports hero who transcended the divisions of race in the segregated 1930s and 1940s.