Charles Norman Shay led a commemoration this week for the 29 Native Americans killed
Normandy, France — Among the veterans honored in Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day is a man with a long untold story named Charles Norman Shay. Earlier in the week, the 94-year-old veteran led a commemoration for the 29 Native Americans killed in Normandy who were buried there.
Shay had grown up in the Penobscot community in Maine, attended high school, was drafted into the Army and trained as a medic.
