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  • World's oldest man, WWI vet, dies aged 113

    07/18/2009 12:04:39 PM PDT · by NEWwoman · 22 replies · 963+ views
    CNN.com/europe ^ | July 18, 2009 | CNN.com/europe
    LONDON, England (CNN) -- Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and the oldest surviving British veteran from World War I, has died at the age of 113, his care home said Saturday.
  • Gov. honors Florida's last surviving World War I vet, 111 [years old]

    11/10/2006 7:19:01 PM PST · by MotleyGirl70 · 52 replies · 1,395+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 11/10/06 | Associated Press
    BRADENTON -- Ernest Charles Pusey, 111 years old and nattily attired in a dress shirt and light blue cardigan, smiled slightly when Gov. Jeb Bush walked in his trailer Friday and gave him a medal for helping win World War I.
  • Ring melt ceremony bonds past with the future

    05/30/2005 11:04:37 AM PDT · by BulletBobCo · 1,223+ views
    Pointer View ^ | March 19, 2004 | Spc. Eric S. Bartelt
    Steve Rasmussen stood earnestly, his voice cracking with emotion describing his father’s love for the U. S. Military Academy and his privilege to witness something that meant so much to his father with the hope it will mean the same to its new owner. His father, James Asa Rasmussen, USMA class of 1945, who died October 26, had a last wish of contributing his class ring to the Class Ring Memorial Program. His ring was included among the 12 present at the ring ceremony conducted at the Pease & Curren Refinery in Warwick , R.I. , March 8. In four...
  • Last Wounded U.S. WWI Veteran Dies at 108

    01/09/2004 11:11:39 AM PST · by KantianBurke · 23 replies · 750+ views
    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Alfred Pugh, the last known combat-wounded U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 108, just 10 days short of his 109th birthday, when he died Wednesday. Pugh, who often told visitors the key to a long life is "keep breathing," joined the Army in 1917 and fought in France during World War I with the 77th Infantry Division. In 1918, he was wounded during the Meusse-Argonne offensive, one of the war's bloodiest battles. He died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Bay Pines. VA officials said he was the oldest wounded combat...