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.
loosing
The word is lose. L O S E
There are still quite a few old timer's alive who as children met Civil War veterans. Figure an 18 year old (some were as young as 10) in 1865 was born in 1847. Those 18 year old's in 1865 would have been in their 90's between 1937-1947. A person born in 1937 and had chance to meet some of those veterans would now be 85.
Many baby boomers had the chance to meet former slaves since the youngest former slaves were in their 90s between 1955-1965.
Meetings with persons alive during the Wild West era were possible through the early 1990s.
Times have changed and a lot of history has happened in a relatively short period.
I have a photo of my 6 year old Mom with her great uncle Bob who fought in the misunderstanding. People have asked me from time to time why tempers still flare over it and my answer is because it wasn’t that long ago. Ww11 was really not long ago.