[Rebelbase]

We are loosing them too fast. Won’t be many more years before the last US WWII vet passes.

I remember seeing WWI vets in parades when I was a kid. WWII vets were our dads.

Knew an old timer 30 years ago who told me when he was a little boy his father would take him along to the “old soldiers home” to visit Confederate veterans.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Kartographer]

Lest we forget...

You never lived to see What you gave to me One shining dream of hope and love Life and liberty With a host of brave unknown soldiers For your company, you will live forever Here in our memory In fields of sacrifice Heroes paid the price Young men who died for old men's wars Gone to paradise We are all one great band of brothers And one day you'll see we can live together When all the world is free I wish you'd lived to see All you gave to me Your shining dream of hope and love Life and liberty We are all one great band of brothers And one day you'll see - we can live together When all the world is free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxD0RUJUYo

[laplata]

Thank you. sir. Hand salute.

RIP

[Lean-Right]

“May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and
until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”

[nutmeg]

Rest in peace, Sir. And thank you for your service to our great country.

[srmanuel]

Currahee....soldier

[Rockingham]

Like so many veterans, Bradford Clark Freeman was an ordinary American who went to war and fought in combat, then returned home to become a mailman, thinking not at all of himself as a hero.

As a boy, I was often surprised to learn that many older adults I knew had been in heavy combat in World War II, with the tangible proof being only an old uniform in the back of a closet and a mysterious small box of medals and service papers hidden away. Even to families, they rarely referred to their experience in combat, with details and war stories unspoken.

Only when the father of a longtime friend passed away did his widow and children learn the details of his record and decorations as a bomber pilot in Europe in WW II. In peacetime, he was as a kind and much-respected department store manager, with his obituary the first clue that most had that the man had been repeatedly recognized for heroism in combat.

[Vermont Lt]

The war ended 77 years ago. Of course they are almost all dead.