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The_Dude
10-13-2008, 12:45 PM
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/last-doughboy.html

As a history teacher, i found this very interesting....

I know that Germany also lost its last Veteran of WW1 earlier in 2008 or in late 2007.

Talk about the end of an era.
diabsoule
10-13-2008, 01:29 PM
Very interested article. I find it particularly interesting since I have a high degree of interest in military interest and graduated college with a history degree.
TitleTown088
10-13-2008, 02:37 PM
107? He looks like a spring chicken.
CJSchneider
10-13-2008, 02:44 PM
If you can read this post, thank a teacher.
If you can read it in English, thank a veteran.

Thank you Mr. Buckles.
Brent
10-13-2008, 03:12 PM
If you can read it in English, thank a veteran
I am not trying to incite any problems but are you implying that fighting in WWI or WWII is the reason we are speaking English still?
TitleTown088
10-13-2008, 03:16 PM
I am not trying to incite any problems but are you implying that fighting in WWI or WWII is the reason we are speaking English still?

It's clearly hypothetical, but it gets the point across.
themaninblack
10-13-2008, 05:53 PM
kind of crazy to imagine that this has finally come to be.
CJSchneider
10-13-2008, 10:42 PM
I am not trying to incite any problems but are you implying that fighting in WWI or WWII is the reason we are speaking English still?

Well, that is speculation. What I am saying is that every freedom you enjoy, you owe a debt of gratitude to those past and present who sacraficed to secure those freedoms.
diabsoule
10-14-2008, 05:15 AM
Well, that is speculation. What I am saying is that every freedom you enjoy, you owe a debt of gratitude to those past and present who sacraficed to secure those freedoms.

I can't believe you had to explain that.
CJSchneider
10-14-2008, 11:15 AM
You can't believe I had to or that I did.
The_Dude
10-14-2008, 12:33 PM
Had to....