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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring for the sick and injured as a flight nurse in the Air Force, died Jan. 8 at a nursing home in Amityville, ...