Posted on 11/14/2014 4:24:51 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
WWII veteran, 98, dons uniform for final salute before dying the next day at New York nursing home On Veterans Day, Justus Belfield donned his Army uniform one more time The 98-year-old World War II veteran died the next day Belfield spent 16 years in the Army, including a stint in Europe where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge By ASSOCIATED PRESS
On Veterans Day, Justus Belfield donned his Army uniform one more time, even though he was too weak to leave his bed at an upstate New York nursing home. The 98-year-old World War II veteran died the next day. The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports that Belfield had worn his uniform every Veterans Day since he and his wife moved into Baptist Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Glenville, outside Albany, several years ago. On Tuesday, the former master sergeant wasn't able to get out of bed to participate in the facility's Veterans Day festivities, so he had the staff dress him in his uniform.
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There are no WW1 vets alive. The last living one died 3 years ago.......
I was lucky to have known one of the last of them. He had been gassed and his eyes and eyelids always looked irritated. I asked him once what WWI was like. All he said was that it was awful.
seems; the French, really turned, Vichy during WWII
..guess 2± mil. military dead WWI left wounds.
Yes my Grandfather was in it, he was Scottish, John Lumsden born in 1898 in Glasgow died 1983 and he never talked about it.. ever. He was a pipe Major in the Queens own Cameron Highlanders, I still have his pipes, even his shaving blade and all his WW1 photos. He was raised by an abusive alcoholic father and he tried to join the army when he was 16 and they sent him back and he tried again and got in and said “he was dodging bullets” and that’s about all he would say. He had an only daughter (my mother) and refused to even say anything to her about the war so that pretty much gave me an idea how bad it was. At times I would see him staring into the distance with tears in his eyes which use to bug me out. I did meet one of his best friends in Paisley in the 70s who had his foot blown off and that guy told me he pretty much spent the entire war “sitting in shiet” which I guess he meant the trenches. I feel bad to this day I never got him talking about it. He use to run his own biz making reeds for the bagpipes all the way until his death in 1983.
Ya beat me to it.
RIP Soldier. Thanks for helping save the world.
Godspeed, Top!
My grandfather was in the Queens Guards - as far as I know he joined at 14 as a Batman, which is basically an Officer’s servant in WWI. He would not talk about it other than to say he saw some awful things and it made him hate the Monarchy. He blamed the English and the German monarchy for the war. He was a Northern Ireland Catholic so that didn’t help much in his anger towards all things monarchical but he did like some of the English officers!
Too good for this world. Rest in peace.
RIP to a true hero.
RIP Good Soldier, RIP
I salute you Sir! As an aside, why hasn’t any of our news outlets carried this story??
Bless you sir
Bless you sir
The Lesser Generation.
You must be very proud of him. And rightly so!
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