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To: GATOR NAVY; All

Anybody have a clue as to how many living WWI veterans are still around?


19 posted on 05/17/2008 9:23:59 PM PDT by wastedyears (Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. - Optimus Prime)
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To: wastedyears

In the article there is a graphic that says Buckles is the last American WWI vet, and the only other living vet is Canadian.

Can you believe we are down to the last two?

I mean, my husband’s grandfather fought in WWI for the Germans. My mother remembers the Civil War vets in the parades. It seems so strange. History hurtles on.


20 posted on 05/17/2008 9:33:19 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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