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Author Topic: Henry Allingham dies aged 113. Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-18-2009 08:02 AM                     Henry Allingham, the oldest, and one of the very few remaining veterans of the Great War has died. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 07-18-2009 04:29 PM                     About 5 years ago my VFW post still had a WWI veteran member. He passed then at the age of 104. Today, the remaining WWII guys are departing at over 1000 per day.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2009 05:09 PM                     Here is a list of the last surviving veterans of World War I by country. Its from Wikipedia, so its not academic.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-25-2009 01:13 PM                        Last UK veteran of WWI trench battles dies at 111  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-25-2009 04:02 PM                     And then there were three . . . When I was a little boy, my Grandfather's neighbor was an old immigrant from what is now Croatia. When he died in 1986 my grandfather was given his glass that he would use to drink wine. Now, every Christmas, I use that glass and remind my children how the original user spent three days under a bridge, in water up to his neck, as an Austro-Hungarian soldier hiding from the Italians during the Isonzo Campaign. They look at me with blank expressions or - at best - simple acknowledgment. I'm not a super patriot, nor do I even fly the American flag, but it is stories like these I tell my children so that one day they might quietly understand what it means to be an American.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-25-2009 08:44 PM                        I can understand the blank expressions. It isn't at all clear to me either what the story of some Croatian soldier hiding from Italians in WWI has to do with "being an American".  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-31-2009 03:20 PM                     At the risk of having this thread closed you just have to understand that it is in, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story".  |  IP: Logged

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