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  • 103-Year-Old Vet Last Of A Breed

    02/06/2005 6:21:38 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 24 replies · 1,665+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | February 5, 2005 | John McCormick
    The 20th--and last--name will soon be inscribed near the statue of a soldier that sits on the north end of the cemetery in Anna, Ill., a monument to the city's World War I veterans. The name belongs to Warren V. Hileman, laid to rest Friday with full military honors under an unusually warm February sky in southern Illinois. State officials say Hileman, 103, was the state's last veteran from the World War I era, a soon-to-be extinct group now estimated at less than 100 nationally. "It marks the end of an era of World War I veterans," Roy Dolgos, director...