Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end..

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RevRick -> Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (2/28/2011 9:29:30 PM)
This man was our last WWI vet.. but he also spent three years in a Japanese POW Camp in WWII... What a life!! Last WWI vet dies

Canoerebel -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (2/28/2011 9:44:01 PM)
Darn, a sad day for the rest of us, but perhaps he is satisfied after a long and full and adventurous life to join all his comrades in rest.

Shark7 -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (2/28/2011 10:26:29 PM)
Saw that earlier. I only hope someone got all his stories written down.

wdolson -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (2/28/2011 11:06:04 PM)
The list of WWI vets is getting shorter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_veterans I believe someone wrote a book a couple of years ago which had the stories of all the surviving vets who numbered about 6 or 7 at the time. Bill

Canoerebel -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (3/1/2011 1:34:36 AM)
Assuming that the Archduke Ferdinand was the first casualty of World War I, it's interesting to note that 97 years later there are two remaining acknowledged veterans of that conflict. The last acknowledged veteran of the U.S. Civil War, which started in 1861, died in 1959, or 98 years later. (Have any of you seen the footage of the Gettysburg veterans "re-creating" PIckett's Charge at the 75th Anniversary in 1938? Or was it the 50th Annniversary in 1913?) If the same holds true for the last veterans of World War II, there should still be one or a few as late as 2039 or so in the USA. (On the one hand, youngsters weren't as free to join the military, but life expectancy should be somewhat greater.) We probably have a maximum of about ten to fifteen more years with any veterans in good enough shape to really speak about their experiences. Somebody will probably correct me on this. I shall gird up my loins for the correction.

Bullwinkle58 -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (3/1/2011 3:19:54 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel The last acknowledged veteran of the U.S. Civil War, which started in 1861, died in 1959, or 98 years later. (Have any of you seen the footage of the Gettysburg veterans "re-creating" PIckett's Charge at the 75th Anniversary in 1938? Or was it the 50th Annniversary in 1913?) There's a pretty lengthy piece of film on it in Ken Burns' documentary "The Civil War." In the last five minutes or so. I believe it was the 1930s. I remember thinking that when my dad wasa kid there were still ACW vets alive. And lots and lots of former slaves.

wdolson -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (3/1/2011 4:13:27 AM)
During the 1930s as part of the make work projects during the Depression, people went out and interviewed all the remaining people who had been born into slavery. The National Archives still has the original recordings. Bill

Terminus -> RE: Last US WWI vet - but take a look at the end.. (3/1/2011 5:19:01 AM)
Burns used some of that footage too.

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