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that's pretty cool. sad to think of all those stories that are lost forever. It's going to be the same with our WW2 vets soon.
Just became that way with the WWI vets. What was it, earlier this month or late last month that it was announced the last living WWI vet in this country passed on.
Personally the thing I think is sad is the stories the vets told to their families but which never got written down. Verbally passed on, those stories could vastly change from what they were when the vets originally told them. How much have the stories originally told a hunaded fifty years ago changed as family members retold them to their own kids, grandkids, etc.? It's absolutely fantastic that folks have stories to pass on about their ancestors who took part in the war, but you kinda have to wonder if those stories are the same as what their ancestors originally told and if not just how much they've changed.