> I am now in my 70s and it has been over 50 years since my own combat experience (in Vietnam) and veterans of that war are dying off everyday. I wonder who will be the last one of us standing. <
As I’m sure you know, there are still WW 2 veterans among us. The last surviving American WW 1 vet was Frank Buckles, who passed away in 2011, 93 years after WW 1 ended.
So hopefully you Vietnam vets will have many more years to go.
I am old enough to remember when there were more WWI veterans still alive than there are WWII veterans still alive today.
Both of my grandfathers were veterans of WWI and my father and uncles were veterans of WWII. They are all gone now but not forgotten.