Only 1 US WW 1 vet left

[megomonkey]

The last German WWI vet- they think - since their records and such were eh, lost, died a few weeks ago. A very noteworthy bunch of passings, I agree. What a horrific (and seemingly forgotten by today's media) conflict WWI was.

My Gram's little brother -just 18-was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, and is buried in Belgium. A sadness and loss that still resonates all these years after.

Funny isn't it, that we really never learn?

[Bo8a_Fett]

Harry Patch who fought in WW1 at Passchendaele returned to the site of the battle last year...he wouldn't talk about the war until he passed his 100th birthday..

[Mikey]

Both my grandfathers (and grandmothers) came to the USA shortly before WW1.
Both grandfathers served in the German army pre-WW1 under Franz Joseph.
I think they were actually from either austria hungary or galicia.
Family lore say's they high-tailed it out of there when there was talk of war.

They jumped over to the GOOD SIDE in the nick of time