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This Native American veteran waded ashore at Normandy. He’s now 100 years old and reminisces about fighting for a country that discriminated against his people.

Por: The Boston Globe Nation November 11, 2022

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MASHPEE — Chief Silent Drum is 100 years old, but in his mind’s eye he can still see the beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944, the German bullets skipping across the water, their planes strafing the Allies, the bodies of dead American soldiers on the shore.“You had no idea what you were going into,” the chief, born Vernon Lopez, said Thursday at his home near the Mashpee Wampanoag reservation. “You were up to your neck in water. You were... + full article



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