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Oneida veterans receive top French honor

Three members of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin have received France's highest honor for their military service in World War II.

. Allen Green, Edmund Powless and Warren Skenadore are the first Oneida veterans to join the French Legion of Honor. The three men fought in key battles in France, including Normandy.

"They played a decisive role to save our country and preserve our freedom for sixty plus years," Jean-Baptiste Main de Boissière, the consul general of France in Chicago, said at a ceremony on the reservation, The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported. "The real question is why did we wait so long to recognize them."

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France presents highest honor to three Oneida World War II veterans (The Green Bay Press-Gazette 10/7)

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