I can remember when there were still World War I veterans around. Where have the years gone?
Thats nothing. I still recall when the last Civil War veteran passed. I was 6 years old.
I had the pleasure and honor of knowing and bending elbows with “Old Man Charley”
He had served in the USN at the end of WWI and in WWII and when Korea came around, the Navy wouldn’t let him back in....so he joined the Merchant Marines.
They broke the mold after making men like him.
I'm old enough to remember WW1 Veterans from the parades that used to go through my hometown growing up. I was marching with the Boy Scouts so they were either in front of or in back of us and then we'd go to the VFW for spaghetti dinners with them. At the time, there were still millions of WW2 veterans still around including many of my uncles)
Now the WW2 veterans too are almost gone. We lost Bob Dole as well today.