And if you go back far enough, she probably is
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| Author: | Carrington [ Sat May 21, 2011 12:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Year after Year, their numbers get fewer... |
Someday no one will march there at all. I just read of Claude Choules passing, I guess on the 5th of May, 2011. Evidently there is but one remaining veteran of the Great War, Florence Green of Britain. RIP. |
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| Author: | GlynG [ Sat May 21, 2011 1:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Year after Year, their numbers get fewer... |
Such is the way with all Wars, however large or tragic. Time moves ever on till none of the soldiers, none of any of us one day, are around. Carrington wrote: one remaining veteran of the Great War, Florence Green of Britain. Good to hear of a Green making it through to a fine old age. I wonder if he's a distant relation, probably unlikely. |
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| Author: | Carrington [ Sat May 21, 2011 4:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Year after Year, their numbers get fewer... |
GlynG wrote: Such is the way with all Wars, however large or tragic. Time moves ever on till none of the soldiers, none of any of us one day, are around. Carrington wrote: one remaining veteran of the Great War, Florence Green of Britain. Good to hear of a Green making it through to a fine old age. I wonder if he's a distant relation, probably unlikely. A she, actually. Interestingly enough. |
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| Author: | KivArn [ Sat May 21, 2011 9:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Year after Year, their numbers get fewer... |
And if you go back far enough, she probably is
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| Author: | Legion 4 [ Sat May 21, 2011 1:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Year after Year, their numbers get fewer... |
Yes ... I read that too ... he was like 110 ? RIP ... |
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