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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The last World War One veteran
The last veteran of the Great War, that war to end all wars, has died. Her name was Florence Green. She died on Saturday at the age of 110. She was just two weeks away from turning 111.
They are all gone now, that generation that fought the first truly modern war. That was a terrible bloody war. And it planted some of the seeds for the next great war. A young Austrian soldier named Adolf Hitler made sure of that.
My grandfather Amos Lee served in the Marine Corps in France. Amos and his twin brother Orrin enlisted as soon as they got out of high school in a small western Iowa town. They were born in 1899. Amos died at age 96. I wish I had asked him more about his experiences in that war.
All gone. They sleep the great sleep. At rest now.
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