WW I Vet Died - only two left ... Last German also
dead.
I can remember quite well many, many old WWI Vets marching in Armistice Day parades (that's what Veteran's Day was called then).
The death on Monday of Harry Richard Landis means that there are now just fourteen known and verified WWI veterans left alive.
Landis, who joined the US army in October 1918, was still in training when the war ended. He died aged 108 at a nursing home in Sun City Florida. His death means that there are just two WWI veterans remaining in the USA: Frank Buckles and Canadian John Babcock.
He was the fifth WWI veteran to die this year.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_landis_080206/
My grandfather J.P. Reynolds with my grandmother
just before shipping out to France, 1918.
Here he is the morning before he shipped out to
France, 1918.
Last photo of my grandfather
Reynolds before leaving for
'Over There.'
'Poppum' taught me to fish, hunt
ducks and crab down at his place
near Ship Bottom/Barnegat, New
Jersey. He, his father and grandfather
(Civil War Vet) were all avid hunters.
File this under 'equal reporting'
Last German WWI vet dies, unsung, at 107, Jan. 28, 2008
BERLIN - A German believed to have been the country's last World War I veteran has died at the age of 107, a death that almost went unnoticed in a nation that lost both world wars and doesn't track its remaining veterans.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/01/ap_german_veteran_080125/
I can remember quite well many, many old WWI Vets marching in Armistice Day parades (that's what Veteran's Day was called then).
The death on Monday of Harry Richard Landis means that there are now just fourteen known and verified WWI veterans left alive.
Landis, who joined the US army in October 1918, was still in training when the war ended. He died aged 108 at a nursing home in Sun City Florida. His death means that there are just two WWI veterans remaining in the USA: Frank Buckles and Canadian John Babcock.
He was the fifth WWI veteran to die this year.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_landis_080206/
My grandfather J.P. Reynolds with my grandmother
just before shipping out to France, 1918.
Here he is the morning before he shipped out to
France, 1918.
Last photo of my grandfather
Reynolds before leaving for
'Over There.'
'Poppum' taught me to fish, hunt
ducks and crab down at his place
near Ship Bottom/Barnegat, New
Jersey. He, his father and grandfather
(Civil War Vet) were all avid hunters.
File this under 'equal reporting'
Last German WWI vet dies, unsung, at 107, Jan. 28, 2008
BERLIN - A German believed to have been the country's last World War I veteran has died at the age of 107, a death that almost went unnoticed in a nation that lost both world wars and doesn't track its remaining veterans.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/01/ap_german_veteran_080125/
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Too bad ! I knew a lot off WWI vets as i mowed their yards and stuff when i was a kid.My grandpa and my wifes grandpa were both WWI vets,mine passed away in 1963,hers in 1992.I got to talk to her grandpa about the war but only got to hear storys from my uncles and mom about mine ( he was gased ) and his brother who was killed.A great uncle had the ring of his helmet shot off .Too bad there wont be anyone around to get first hand accounts from. Very sad ! 0 -
My maternal grandparents. He's off to France and she is pregnant with their first child (my Aunt Jane).
My paternal grandfather also served in WW I.0 -
I remember marching as a cub scout in a July 4th parade in the early 60s there were survivors from the Spanish American war. When I did my paper route I remember seeing all these guys with missing fingers, limbs, eyes, disfigured faces etc. I did not realize until later that they were all vets. Price of freedom...... 0 -
I had a grandfather who "fit the Germans over there". He wouldn't talk about it, but he did sing a song about "Kaiser Bill" when he got drunk. [:D] When I lived in Forsyth County, NC my next door neighbor was a WWI veteran. He gave me an Iron Cross he brought back as a souvenir. I didn't know what I had, and it disappeared.
I had one great grandfather who was in the Spanish American War. He had his cavalry saddle in the barn. I remember thinking that was the most uncomfortable looking saddle I had ever seen.
When I was a teenager the next to last union soldier from the Civil War (insert your name for that war) died. There were still two Confederate soldiers living. The joke at the time was when they got the news one of them said "Grab your rifle Johnny, we've finally got him outnumbered".0 -
its sad to think of them all gone ...i had an uncle who was inww1...he never spoke about it much...just used to say the turks were fierce fighters.
and when i was a teenager, i knew a man who was in ww1 and ww2...he said he was a fool...in ww1 he lied and put his age up...in ww2, he lied again and put his age down!...
shame of it is, nothings been learned from the past...0
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