Honoring Minority Veterans, A Century Later
Honoring Minority Veterans, A Century Later I, Too, Am America Published February 3rd, 2021 at 9:30 AM
Dr. Emma Lapsansky-Werner knew nothing of her father’s military exploits when she was a child. It wasn’t until after he passed that she learned the events of Sept. 27, 1918.
That evening, heavy machine gun fire shredded the Argonne Forest as American troops advanced on Germany in the final weeks of World War I.
Thomas Jones looked to his left to see a fellow Allied soldier who had been shot in the field. Jones ran through a hailstorm of bullets to render aid.