Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Henry Allingham dies aged 113.

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 07-18-2009, 08:02 AM:

Henry Allingham, the oldest, and one of the very few remaining veterans of the Great War has died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 07-18-2009, 04:29 PM:

About 5 years ago my VFW post still had a WWI veteran member. He passed then at the age of 104. Today, the remaining WWII guys are departing at over 1000 per day.

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 07-18-2009, 05:09 PM:

Here is a list of the last surviving veterans of World War I by country. Its from Wikipedia, so its not academic.

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 07-25-2009, 01:13 PM:

Last UK veteran of WWI trench battles dies at 111

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 07-25-2009, 04:02 PM:

And then there were three . . .

When I was a little boy, my Grandfather's neighbor was an old immigrant from what is now Croatia. When he died in 1986 my grandfather was given his glass that he would use to drink wine. Now, every Christmas, I use that glass and remind my children how the original user spent three days under a bridge, in water up to his neck, as an Austro-Hungarian soldier hiding from the Italians during the Isonzo Campaign. They look at me with blank expressions or - at best - simple acknowledgment. I'm not a super patriot, nor do I even fly the American flag, but it is stories like these I tell my children so that one day they might quietly understand what it means to be an American.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-25-2009, 08:44 PM:

I can understand the blank expressions. It isn't at all clear to me either what the story of some Croatian soldier hiding from Italians in WWI has to do with "being an American".

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 07-31-2009, 03:20 PM:

At the risk of having this thread closed you just have to understand that it is in, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story".