By HOLLY ZACHARIAH | The Columbus Dispatch | Published: March 2, 2021 COLUMBUS, Ohio (Tribune News Service) — He wore a Buffalo Soldier hat. He had the emblem of his all-African American cavalry regiment emblazoned on his T-shirts. And when Mr. John B. Williams introduced himself to you — because that is always how he said it — his historic service to his country during World War II inevitably came up. But Williams never bragged. He had no bluster, no puffed-out-chest blow. And he always asked about you first. Yet the pride he had for all that he had done was clear. Williams was a public servant. A patriot. A history-maker. A civil rights fighter.