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Kind of sad really but still interesting to go down the list. In all of Russia there is only one man left alive who served in the Czar's army. USA has the most number of surviving vets followed by Germany and then France.
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Kind of sad really but still interesting to go down the list. In all of Russia there is only one man left alive who served in the Czar's army. USA has the most number of surviving vets followed by Germany and then France.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate. -
Our last WWI airman died a couple of years ago.
I met a WWI vet about 5 years ago. Man, that dude was old.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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There's still about 7 left in the uk (England only?). There was documentary about them in november.
/me raises his glass for the oldtimers...Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Is the reason the Americans have so many still alive compared to the other countries because when they arrived there was almost no-one left to kill them during the war?One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Nah, it was probably WWII that took out a lot of the european veterans. If not directly, then reduced their lifespan due to shortages.Originally posted by Dauphin
Is the reason the Americans have so many still alive compared to the other countries because when they arrived there was almost no-one left to kill them during the war?
Imagining to have lived through most of the twentieh century and experience going from horsedrawn carts to space shuttles - can't have been that boring.
*toast*With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Every year the number of English veterans that come over here on Market Garden Remembrance Day is smaller and smaller
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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Recently we had a law passed here in michigan, IIRC, allowing sons of veterans to firerifles at cerrimonial service,etc, because WWII vets are dying out and getting them for funerals or whatever they do was difficultif you want to stop terrorism; stop participating in it
''Oh,Commissar,if we could put the potatoes in one pile,they would reach the foot of God''.But,replied the commissar,''This is the Soviet Union.There is no God''.''Thats all right'' said the worker,''There are no potatoes''Comment
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A great uncle of mine was a doughboy and managed to get gassed by the remainder. He got home, was sick for a couple of months and then died. I'm guessing that a lot of men got gassed, which similarly shortened their lives, if it didn't kill them outright. Interestingly, his dad was a German emigre.Originally posted by Dauphin
Is the reason the Americans have so many still alive compared to the other countries because when they arrived there was almost no-one left to kill them during the war?
Ever since then, the men of the family have fallen in between the big generations, and, as such, avoided the wars.Last edited by DanS; February 16, 2006, 18:27.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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What's so sad about it? It's perfectly natural to expect most people approaching 110 to be passing on. The War to End All Wars was 90 years ago.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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When I was in elementry school I would sometimes walk to the bank where my aunt was the manager because it was so close and because she'd buy me stuff. Anyway, one of the banks costumers was a really old guy who was born in the 1880's and was a WW1 vet. I'm sure he's been dead for 20 years now.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.
My mom's grandfather was a WW1 vet but he was long dead by the time I came around.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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natural does not equal good.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
What's so sad about it? It's perfectly natural to expect most people approaching 110 to be passing on. The War to End All Wars was 90 years ago.
Mortality sucks.Comment
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A soldier who was 18 in 1918 would be approaching 106 today... no wonder there are so few remaining.I'm about to get aroused from watching the pokemon and that's awesome. - PekkaComment
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My mother oldest brother was born in 1898. US Navy WWI. Had 3 DDs sunk that he was on. One of them, someone had a camera and I saw the picture of his ship as it was about 1/2 down. Some b!tch that claimed to be his daughter took all the pictures when he died. She was in fact his ex-step-daughter-in-law.
My mother was born in 1906, so she saw horse buggie to cars. She died in 1984.Comment
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It sucks individually, but it's good for the species overall.Originally posted by Geronimo
Mortality sucks.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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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.Originally posted by BlackCat
Imagining to have lived through most of the twentieh century and experience going from horsedrawn carts to space shuttles - can't have been that boring.
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?Comment
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