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.