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A native American war hero gets the French Legion of honor award
"Old Town, Maine - In a black frame on the wall in Charles Shay's tidy study is a tattered pink telegram. It's the War Department communiqué that his mother, Florence Shay, received in early March of 1945. Her son was missing in action near Remagen, Germany.
It was two long months before a knock on her door in early May brought any further news:It was her son, himself. "I walked in and there was complete exultation, tears, hugging. She couldn't believe I was standing there in front of her," he recalls. He'd been liberated from a German POW camp and sent home."
A native American war hero gets the French Legion of honor award | csmonitor.com
"Old Town, Maine - In a black frame on the wall in Charles Shay's tidy study is a tattered pink telegram. It's the War Department communiqué that his mother, Florence Shay, received in early March of 1945. Her son was missing in action near Remagen, Germany.
It was two long months before a knock on her door in early May brought any further news:It was her son, himself. "I walked in and there was complete exultation, tears, hugging. She couldn't believe I was standing there in front of her," he recalls. He'd been liberated from a German POW camp and sent home."
A native American war hero gets the French Legion of honor award | csmonitor.com