As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.
As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.
Charles Norman Shay at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in 2019. “I saw there were many wounded men who were floundering in the water,” he said, recalling D-Day. “And I knew that if nobody went to help them, they were doomed to die.”
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