Only 80 men left who served in WW1.

[Frozzy]

My great grandmother died last year... she went from muskets to JDAM missiles. From candle street lamps to massive neon signs like "SAM'S SEX SALOON" and the like.

How incredible. How positively depressing.

[Andemagne]

the last finnish civil war (1918) veteran died in 1995.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kalius
How positively depressing.

Why "depressing?" I find the pace of techological advancement to be positively exhilerating.

[alva]

Originally posted by Kalius
My great grandmother died last year... she went from muskets to JDAM missiles. From candle street lamps to massive neon signs like "SAM'S SEX SALOON" and the like.

How incredible. How positively depressing.

Ahh yes, them good old days where we could send 8 year olds up a chimney to clean it and die 5 years later.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


It sucks individually, but it's good for the species overall.

so what? the species couldn't care less about anything. Only it's individuals have the power to care, or give a **** in the slightest about anything.

Anyway the death of these last 80 ww1 vets will in no way bennefit the species overall.

extinction of all ww1 vets

[Tiamat]

My grandfather fought in the Mexican conflict and WWI, we have picutre of the whole mounted clavary division and this summer found his uniform and calavary boots in mint condition. My father fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

[Dinner]

My grandfather was a mustang pilot in the pacific at the end of WW2. My father's father couldn't join the army because he worked in a "war critical industury" in Scotland. Namely, he was a coal miner.

[Tiamat]

Cool we have something in common dad was a fighter pilot for 27 years.

[Frozzy]

My grandfather fought in Normandy in 1944.

My other grandfather fought in China in the 1930s against the Communists when his division was helping the Nationalists, then was stationed in the Suez before being invalided out in 1938.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Our last WWI airman died a couple of years ago.

I met a WWI vet about 5 years ago. Man, that dude was old.

QOTD

[Ecthy]

Just today I thought how right after WWII people were just 60-80 years away from Bismarck and all the lot. Closer than we are to WWI, imagine.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Tiamat
Cool we have something in common dad was a fighter pilot for 27 years.

My grandma's cousin was one of the very last US pilots to be shot down and killed by the Germans in WWII. [/me too]

[Ecthy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_surviving_United_States_war_veterans

The last Civil War veterans lived until the late 1950s... Until the early 1990s Spanish-American War (1898) veterans were still alive. it is amazing.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Heh in WWI a brother from my greatgrandmother died on Eastern Front (in Russia)... that is the only "family" casualty that we had in that war, and in the second WW... one grandad finished in a concentration camp in Italy, had to walk all way back home on foot after the allies attacked and the camp was falling apart, so he managed to escape, and the other was with the Partizans (the guerilla fighters in the balkans), and got even captured by Germans. Prior to the capture, it is said that he spent the night in the woods on his own trying to avoid them, and went gray during that night... he sure was all gray when he was old ... but well he just passed away recently. He always used "junge, junge" which is like (kids, kids) in German, this is what the German guard used to say to him, so I guess there were very good reasons for him to rmemember that... anyhow he survived the war too.

there are a few more interesting stories in all that... but overall "war what is it good for?" definitely stands as a good point. Instead of drinking beer with one another in the pub, you end up killing each other for some ****ed up idiots (the ones starting it all, in that war the axis) sitting nicely in warrooms playing strategy games for all that its worth

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


I remember when the U.S. launched its first mission to the moon, one of the guests at the launch was an ancient African-American who had been born into slavery. Now, he was watching a moon launch.

When asked what he thought about people going to the moon, he replied "Ain't nobody going to no moon. This is all a fake. The pictures will all be Hollywood special effects. Ain't nobody going to no moon." Good bless crusty old folks.

What won't we be able to believe in our closing days?

I remember that my parents took us to some church way out in the boonies of Oregon one Sunday around the moon landing. The old ladies were disgusted with the whole idea and said we had no business messing around "up there", as if we'd bother God or something.