[rollei_list] Re: Veterans' Day/Armistice Day/Remembrance Day
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:48:21 -0800
I guess I meant Doughboys. See:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/07/war.veteran/index.html
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Marc James Small
<marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 12:21 AM 11/12/2008, Peter K. wrote:
>>Only one in the US. He is 108 or 9. Just read about him in one of the
>>magazines.
>
> Peter is speaking of surviving US WWI veterans, and this depends on how you
> count "veteran". They pulled three up at the Atlanta celebrations today.
> But do you mean COMBAT veteran or veteran or someone who, as a kid, picked
> up some boxes and helped some soldiers.
>
> When I was a lad, back in the longago, we had a next-door neighbor whose
> family included an old, VERY old, geezer. This was in 1958. We all looked
> at him with some measure of distrust. One day, on Memorial Day, he called
> us over, and told us that he remembered the Yankee troops coming home to his
> Wisconsin hometown in June, 1865. He would have been around 98 or 99 at the
> time. Some folks live a LONG time.
>
> In my own lifetime, I knew well a WWI German veteran and interviewed
> possibly a dozen vets of the Russian Civil War. I have interviewed several
> vets from the Spanish-American War and one from the Boer War, and I spoke at
> some length with a Marine Corps vet from Haiti in both 1919 and `1921 --
> hell, I tried to send his comments on to Ben Frank, the former Chief
> Historian of the Jarheads, but the both of them died before I could get
> contact established. But, then, Ben probably would not have approved of
> this guy, who told me that he only enlisted in the Marine Corps after he was
> rejected by the Army and by the Navy.
>
> My grandfather, born in 1880, knew his own grandfather, born in 1807, well.
> And I knew my grandfather, who died in 1977, well. The generations flow
> together: I live less than three miles from the Jeff Davis Corridor where a
> number of my relatives wasted two or three years of their lives in
> convincing the Revolting Southrons to cease being so Revolting.
>
> There are times when I do feel a pull towards the Great Chain of Being! If
> folks start asking about, they will find their own nexus with the past. We
> are all part of history. EVERY older person has a story to tell. Stop them
> and, if they have the time, ask them their tale. "There are a million
> stories in the naked city, and this is mne." Trust me, this is the truth.
>
> Hell, I was flummoxed a few years back on our sister List, the Leica Users
> Group, on a person who had claimed to have met a grand-daughter of the
> brother of the latest recognized Tsar, Nicholas II. It took me a fair
> amount of research to find out that, wow! this was a proper claim and I was
> caught beams a-lee, as the Brits say.
>
> Sorry to have rattled on to such an excess. If someone could assist,
> mayhaps we could set up a Rolei List BLOG?
>
> Marc
>
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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