Indigenous Veterans seated in a ceremony in City Hall (Photo Credits - Daniel Barker-Tremblay)
June 6th is a day of somber as many Canadians remember the sacrifices soldiers made on D-Day on the 80th Anniversary.
Windspeaker Radio Network spoke with Charles Issacs, President of the Aboriginal Veterans Society of Alberta, as he says 20 percent of the soldiers that stormed the beaches on D-Day where Indigenous, as he adds on his encounters with several Indigenous Veterans that where on the beach on D-Day.
Issacs says that Indigenous people need to go back on their families history and highlight their family members that served within the war has not yet been told, by searching through archives and war records of their service.
Issacs urges many Aboriginal people across the province to tell those stories of their loved ones that served, and adds that Canada wouldn’t be the country it is without their service and sacrifice.
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