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Offline tedrbr

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Last WWI Combat Vet Laid to Rest
« on: March 15, 2007, 04:42:12 PM »
This was Feb 22nd.  Sorry if I didn't see it posted elsewhere in the forums before this.

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,128041,00.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

7 WWI vets still around according to the VA, but none of them served overseas, so this is the last "combat vet" from America from that war.

End of an Era.
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Offline Maverick

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Last WWI Combat Vet Laid to Rest
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2007, 05:36:22 PM »
RIP Cpl. Howard V. Ramsey.

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A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
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Last WWI Combat Vet Laid to Rest
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2007, 05:51:46 PM »
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