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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => History Section => Topic started by: The Chronicler on February 28, 2011, 11:30:19 PM

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: The Chronicler on February 28, 2011, 11:30:19 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_...ast_wwi_veteran (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_last_wwi_veteran)

The last surviving American veteran of World War One, Frank Buckles, has recently passed away at the age of 110. The fact that he has lived for so long shows that he had lied about his age when he had enlisted back in 1917. He has spent the last years of his life campaigning for a World War One memorial. With his death, there are now only two WWI veterans throughout the whole world who are still alive today, both of them are from Britain (one has long since moved to Australia).

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: Nick22 on February 28, 2011, 11:49:32 PM

110 is a very very very long life. not many people live that long.

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: Animeboye on March 01, 2011, 12:43:29 AM

You can say that again, Nick. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone living to be 110!

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: Nick22 on March 01, 2011, 01:05:55 AM

the record for oldest person is 122, a woman named Jeanne Calment who died in 1997, and was the last living person to have met Vincent van Gogh, she met him in 1889 when she was a 14 year old girl.

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: LBTDiclonius on March 02, 2011, 02:16:58 AM

110 is a long life, he lived a full life. May he rest in peace.

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: Kor on March 02, 2011, 02:26:14 AM

110 is a very long time indeed.  Imagine living that long.

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: The Chronicler on March 05, 2011, 07:30:55 PM

You know, I started this topic to get people to talk about the fact that virtually all of the WWI veterans are now gone, not that this guy lived to be 110.
To get back on topic, here's another article I found relating to this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110304/ap_on_...eteran_ceremony (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110304/ap_on_re_us/us_last_wwi_veteran_ceremony)

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: Malte279 on May 05, 2011, 11:05:44 AM

And today World War I ceased to be contemporary history. Claude Stanley, the last remaining veteran of WWI, who lied about his age to be admitted into the Royal Navy, died at age 110. What I said before is actually not quite true for some civilians remain who as kids saw WWI, but soon nobody is left who remembers it from own experience.

Title: Last American WWI Vet. Dies
Post by: The Chronicler on May 05, 2011, 09:32:15 PM

I just read about that, myself.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110505/ap_on_...ast_wwi_veteran (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110505/ap_on_re_as/as_obit_last_wwi_veteran)