{"id":79656,"date":"2024-12-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvbrazilusa.com\/2024\/12\/20\/he-survived-the-battle-of-the-bulge-and-stormed-the-beaches-of-normandy-now-at-104-hes-still-golfing-three-days-a-week\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:08:01","slug":"he-survived-the-battle-of-the-bulge-and-stormed-the-beaches-of-normandy-now-at-104-hes-still-golfing-three-days-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvbrazilusa.com\/pt\/2024\/12\/20\/he-survived-the-battle-of-the-bulge-and-stormed-the-beaches-of-normandy-now-at-104-hes-still-golfing-three-days-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"He survived the Battle of the Bulge and stormed the beaches of Normandy. Now, at 104, he\u2019s still golfing three days a week."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8864793242727901\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header class=\"m-article-header m-article-header--standard\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span id=\"article-header-primary-term\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a-term a-term--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/the-boston-globe\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Boston Globe\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"m-article-header__sub-headline\">There are only good and better days out on the course for Arthur Medeiros.<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"a-photo m-article-header__photo\"><figcaption class=\"a-photo__caption\">\n\tArthur Medeiros is now a little more than 80 years removed from landing in Normandy on D-Day.<em> David L. Ryan\/Globe Staff<\/em>\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"m-article-header__meta\">\n<div class=\"m-article-header__byline\">\n<p class=\"m-article-header__author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Kevin Paul Dupont, The Boston Globe\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"m-article-header__date\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDecember 20, 2024 | 5:00 AM\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time><\/p>\n<p><span>11 minutes to read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>PORTSMOUTH, R.I. \u2014 There are only good and better days out here for Arthur Medeiros. He has golfed at Montaup Country Club for more than 40 years, gets around its 18 holes with a familiarity on par with how Einstein navigated E=mc\u00b2, and faithfully plays three rounds every week when the weather\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLight rain, he\u2019ll play. Temps in the 40s, no snow on the ground, Arthur\u2019s on the course,\u201d mused Eddie Cabral, fellow Montaup member and a regular Medeiros playing partner. \u201cHe just plays. And don\u2019t let his age fool you. He\u2019s super, super competitive. All Arthur cares about is playing and playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of which caught Cabral a bit by surprise one recent autumn day when his old pal surrendered after four holes and retreated to the warmth of Montaup\u2019s clubhouse. Factoring in the stiff wind off Narragansett Bay, noted Cabral, the real-feel temperature had dipped to nearly the freezing mark.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature doesn\u2019t set the tee times, but she can be one cruel course marshal for a man 104 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bunch of the guys said, \u2018Nah, I\u2019m not playing . . . too cold . . . too windy,\u2019 \u201d said Cabral, who keeps close watch on his friend when they\u2019re on the course. \u201cArthur that day was one of only six who even went out. All these guys said no and Arthur\u2019s calling \u2018em all \u2018a bunch of weenies.\u2019 But in he goes after four holes. We finish, and I see him inside and he says, \u2018Eddie, I\u2019m just starting to get the feeling back in my fingers.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not hard to understand why Medeiros has had his fill of cold and snow. Along with myriad war injuries, including one that for weeks left him paralyzed from the waist down in a World War II field hospital, winter\u2019s chill largely frames the wartime horrors he witnessed \u2014 and survived \u2014 particularly his long, bone-chilling days at the Battle of the Bulge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsk anyone who was there then, they\u2019ll tell you. Yeah, the fighting was bad, but it was the cold,\u201d said Medeiros, thinking back to the winter of 1944-45, particularly his six weeks in the hellscape of Ardennes. \u201cThey said it was the coldest winter in Europe in 100 years; just snow all the time and cold, cold, cold. My God. There\u2019s no forgetting that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born May 10, 1920, in Fall River, Medeiros is truly in a league of his own on the golf course as a steady-handed, deft-of-club centenarian. He gets around by cart, because the 18 holes would be \u201ctoo tough\u201d on his legs and back, where doctors surgically removed shrapnel some 15 years after the war. His eyesight has diminished in recent years as a result of macular degeneration. The bit of white paint dabbed on the top of his driver helps him identify the ball atop the tee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won\u2019t let me drive the cart anymore,\u201d said Medeiros, chuckling, \u201cnot after I hit the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gasbarro, explained Medeiros, turned his way after making a shot that day from the fairway, and essentially walked into his partner\u2019s driving path. Down went Gasbarro. With other golfers scrambling to pick up the victim, a flustered Medeiros, his foot caught between brake and accelerator, ran him over a second time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my god, the poor guy!\u201d recalled Medeiros, unable to stifle a laugh. \u201cHis hearing aids popped out, and everyone\u2019s on hands and knees trying to find the hearing aids. The guys are laughing like hell. I felt terrible. He called me later that night, to tell me he\u2019d had X-rays, his knee and shoulder, on his way home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry, no fractures, all would be OK, Medeiros recalls Gasbarro telling him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he\u2019s apologizing to me . . . imagine?!\u201d said Medeiros, the pitch of his voice rising as his laugh grows bigger. \u201c \u2018Don\u2019t be sorry,\u2019 I\u2019m saying, \u2018I ran you over!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The laughs help. Part of the trick to living this long, said Medeiros, has been always \u201cto look for the funny stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" src=\"https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"  \" class=\"wp-image-32487826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SCGTHNYK7AERQQW4SVKSZYDYNI-675ab6861b24d-scaled.jpg?width=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arthur Medeiros, 104, plays golf regularly at Montaup Country Club in Rhode Island.<i> \u2013 David L. Ryan\/Globe Staff<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Look for humor, even in the war, when the laughs were few, and the price was high even for survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife was wonderful . . . I had a lot of black . . . flashbacks,\u201d recalled Medeiros. \u201cFor a year, it was tough. I\u2019d wake up in the middle of the night, terrible, I don\u2019t know how she stood it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arthur, with Irene at his side, sought the help of \u201ctwo different doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they both said the same thing. \u2019You\u2019ll have to live through it. Work it out,\u2019 \u201d said a wistful Medeiros. \u201cNow, I guess they have things they can do for you. But it was tough. But I wasn\u2019t the only one.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-angel-on-my-shoulder\">\u2018Angel on my shoulder\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Medeiros is now a little more than 80 years removed from landing in Normandy on D-Day, unleashing a 50-caliber machine gun toward enemy fire as he raced on to Omaha Beach, and months later holding off Germany\u2019s late-stage, ferocious push along the Western Front during the Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16, 1944-Jan. 25, 1945).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made it back,\u201d Medeiros said during a quiet moment away from the golf course. \u201cI must have had an angel on my shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All told, for the time served in the Duration, beginning when he shipped off to Europe in 1942, Medeiros was decorated with three Purple Hearts as well as Bronze and Silver stars. One of the Purple Hearts is included among a cluster of medals proudly pinned inside a display case that hangs in his one-bedroom apartment in Bristol, just 5 miles up the road from Montaup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove playing golf,\u201d said Medeiros, who routinely shoots in the high 80s or low 90s, a dozen strokes or more below his age. \u201cMostly, it\u2019s about always trying to get a better score, like every golfer says. And really, at this age, it\u2019s all I\u2019ve got left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many veterans of Medeiros\u2019s generation, upon returning home from World War II, spoke little of their days on the battlefield. Most were stoic, forever tightlipped, unable or unwilling to speak about what they witnessed. They were home. It was over over there and was best left there.<\/p>\n<p>Medeiros, who in June was among the United States veterans who returned to Normandy for the 80-year remembrance of D-Day, talks freely about his war experience, as if it\u2019s a sense of duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeel I should talk, take the time,\u201d he said to a recent visitor to his apartment at Benjamin Church Manor, a senior living home, as he fussed with the key to the front door. \u201cThere\u2019s so few of us left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Greatest Generation, as they came to be known, typically immersed themselves back into civilian society, restarted careers, began families, bought homes and cars, and drove the expansion to the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Medeiros did all that. He and Mary (known as Irene by family and friends) married in 1941, raised two daughters (Eleanor and Sharon), and bought a home in Pawtucket. For decades, Arthur made his living as a truck driver, a job he tailored over the years mostly to routes in New England. He knew the spots with courses where he could pull over, pop out with his 6-iron, and play a couple of holes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife was wonderful, a sweetheart,\u201d said Medeiros. \u201cShe\u2019d open the blinds in the morning, look outside, and say, \u2018Looks great out there, Arthur, why don\u2019t you go play golf?\u2019 It took me a while, but I finally figured it out. I\u2019d come home and she\u2019d say, \u2018OK, Arthur, why don\u2019t you wash up, and when you\u2019re ready, we\u2019ll go out to dinner.\u2019 Oh, we went out for dinner a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his late teens, before he was married, Medeiros began working in Pawtucket as a machinist at the Haskell Manufacturing Plant, maker of screws and fasteners. When \u201cthe fighting got hot\u201d in Europe, Medeiros said, he was drafted in 1941. Initially, his draft status was deferred, because Haskell\u2019s goods were deemed vital to the war effort.<\/p>\n<p>But when the factory owner\u2019s son was in need of work, Medeiros was out of a job \u201cin a couple of weeks\u201d and soon headed to boot camp.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his return from Europe, Medeiros promptly returned to the Haskell plant, eager to resume life and career. Daughter Eleanor had been born while he was overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was so cute, just this little thing,\u201d said Medeiros, laughing as he recalled the joy of first seeing his infant daughter. \u201cWhile I was away, my wife had this framed picture of me, and she\u2019d show it to Eleanor and say, \u2018That\u2019s Daddy.\u2019 And I\u2019ll never forget, first time seeing her, her mom\u2019s holding up the picture and she\u2019s saying, \u2018That\u2019s Daddy!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medeiros was equally flummoxed by his initial greeting back at Haskell\u2019s, where he was told, sorry, no job. Offering no explanation, recalled Medeiros, the manager sent him on his way. He was a 25-year-old vet, a decorated war hero, with a wife and child, and no job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo these two Irish brothers, the Fitzgeralds, owned the place, really nice guys, sweethearts,\u201d said Medeiros. \u201cAnd they see me as I\u2019m walking out. They come over, and give me this big welcome back, you know, \u2018Arthur, great to see you!\u2019 and all that. I tell \u2018em, \u2018Great, thanks, but I\u2019m told there\u2019s no job.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Medeiros, the Fitzgeralds promptly sacked the manager, upon learning he was demanding veterans fork over $50 if they wanted to reclaim their positions. Medeiros was back on the job.<\/p>\n<p>All through the years, beginning at age 11, Medeiros golfed. The only interruption was the war. For the better part of 90 years, he has been out on the fairways and greens. Years ago, \u201cwhen I could hit the ball a long way,\u201d he said, he routinely was shooting around par.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomewhere around there,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe a 3-4-5 handicap, but we didn\u2019t pay much attention to handicaps back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1755\" src=\"https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"  \" class=\"wp-image-32487831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LKLBIX5NBKYUKCX5AGPQTPDJ6Y-675ab694d383b-scaled.jpg?width=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arthur Medeiros routinely shoots in the high 80s or low 90s, a dozen strokes or more below his age.<i> \u2013 David L. Ryan\/Globe Staff<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-music-to-his-ears\">Music to his ears<\/h2>\n<p>Music was another of Medeiros\u2019s loves. For his 16th birthday, his mother bought him a trombone. It was 1936, America deep in the throes of the Great Depression, but Georgianna Medeiros, born in the Azores, scraped together the 50 cents a week until the $75 trombone was paid in full. When her eldest son went off to war, the trombone eventually made its way over there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo hard for me to play it now,\u201d said Medeiros, who recently gifted the trombone to a good pal, one who promises to keep playing it. \u201cHe\u2019ll love it. Better he gets it instead of someone who\u2019ll turn it into a planter or something. I\u2019d hate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For decades, along with golfing and driving a truck, Medeiros organized and directed musical bands. The Arthur Medeiros Swing Band had 16 members. The Pawtucket Concert Band was nearly triple in size.<\/p>\n<p>He loved Louis Armstrong on the trumpet, and Ella Fitzgerald\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Oh, beautiful. Her voice, the words,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong and Fitzgerald were big names when Medeiros headed off to war, dog tags around his neck, his wife\u2019s tiny childhood prayer book tucked in his back pocket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I read it a lot, over and over and over,\u201d said Medeiros, flipping open the book to show a visitor his wife\u2019s name written on the inside cover. Mary \u201cIrene\u201d Medeiros (nee Botelho) died in 2007. \u201cWe\u2019d be on a machine gun nest, two or three of us, taking turns. I\u2019d get my break and read it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Medeiros was among the thousands of Allied soldiers to storm Normandy\u2019s beaches, Day 1 in the fight to liberate France. The prayer book was in his back pocket. He also had rosary beads, handed to him by a Jewish rabbi, he recalled, during a faith ceremony held on board ship in the English Channel before the troops divvied up into smaller landing boats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up Catholic,\u201d explained Medeiros. \u201cWe were divided into groups for the service, red, white, blue, the priest was in another group. I got the rabbi.\u201d The rosary beads rest at the bottom of the display case with his medals.<\/p>\n<p>Medeiros\u2019s time on Normandy sand was brief. Felled by fire almost immediately, he was promptly loaded back on one of the small boats that ferried new fighters ashore and brought back the wounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelmet on my chest, flattened,\u201d recalled Medeiros, peeling back his left shirt sleeve, revealing where he\u2019d been hit. \u201cMy [finger]nails all ripped out. I thought I\u2019d lost my fingers. But they were OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a short hospital stay back in England, he was back across the Channel for a second landing at Normandy, and then the months of fighting before, during, and after the fighting at the Bulge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were warm and walking they wanted you back out there,\u201d said Medeiros with a chuckle.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-some-not-so-fortunate\">Some not so fortunate<\/h2>\n<p>On the day of his last and most severe injury, March 15, 1945, Medeiros was under the command of captain Edward J. O\u2019Melia Jr., the former Holy Cross football star. The award in O\u2019Melia\u2019s name is still given to the standout player in the Holy Cross-Boston College football games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nicest guy. Everyone called him \u201cMother Hen\u201d because of how he looked after us,\u201d said Medeiros. \u201cHe\u2019d come down and see us. Not all captains did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was O\u2019Melia, recalled Medeiros, who insisted his boys on the front line one day get served pancakes. Because of intense fighting, the flapjacks took three days to arrive, carted in a five-gallon canteen and an accompanying jug of Karo syrup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree days in a canteen,\u201d recalled Medeiros. \u201cYou can imagine. But for us, it was heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 15, less than six months before the war came to a close, Medeiros and O\u2019Melia were riding in a jeep in Belgium. O\u2019Melia was in the front passenger seat and Medeiros behind him. They stopped to pick up a lieutenant, who popped into the back, Medeiros sliding over behind the driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot much later, they spotted us, going up a hill,\u201d said Medeiros, referring to German troops. \u201cThe shelling began. The 88s [millimeter]. Our jeep got hit in front, boom, and the two of us on the left went one way. The two on the right went that way and got killed. We went the other way and got wounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edward J. O\u2019Melia Jr. was among some 8,000 military dead laid to rest (Plot F, Row 4, Grave 75) at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Medeiros and daughter Sharon, who lives in Riverside, later this month will begin their annual drive south to see his other daughter, Eleanor, who lives in Melbourne, Fla. The three will be together for Christmas and Arthur will head back to Bristol in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, when the cold\u2019s outta here,\u201d he said, warmed by the thought he\u2019ll be golfing three days a week, too, while in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>For his 105th birthday, he figures, he\u2019ll have lunch with Sharon. 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