I was just thinking about this gentlemen the other day. And so now WWI passes into the same realm of history as the Spanish American War and the Civil War before it... secondhand sources only. The end of an era.
Indeed, the end of an era.
Rest in peace good sir!
(He was a nice looking kid from what I see in that old photo)
It gives me a strange sort of lonesome feeling reading of his passing....I’m certain many are feeling the same way.
Imagine what it would have felt like for him all those years ago
if he could have somehow seen the future and know that some day he would be the last American WW1 soldier to die.