“Five percent of the American population are veterans”
Is that all?
Yep, give or take a half point. Surprised me as well, and it really is stunning when you realize how many of them are WWII and Korean War vets, dying off literally by the thousands due to the passage of time.
Bottom line is the percentage will continue to drop, rather dramatically, over the next 15 years.
Yeah, I know it’s inevitable, but it’s sad that so many vets are dying off so fast. But that’s a result of the size of the war they fought in.
Must have seemed the same in the 1920’s when Civil War vets began to succumb in large numbers due to old age.
Somebody once said, “Every time an old person dies, it is like a museum has burned to the ground.”