One of the two remaining WWI US veterans died today.

[sarge43]

He was Harry Richard Landis who lived in Tampa FL and was 108. Thank you, soldier :patriot: and rest in peace.

The remaining WWI veteran is Frank Buckles. He lives in Charles Town WV and is 107.

[watrwefitinfor]

1. R.I.P. Harry Richard Landis

My world was once full of WWI veterans - my grandfather, and his friends and relatives. What great old men they were. What stories they told...

So hard to believe they're all gone, but one.

Wat

[Itchinjim]

2. As a child in the sixties, practically every old man I knew was a WWI vet.

My grandfathers, great uncles, Doughboys all. They smoked White Owl cigars and drank Falstaff beer while they played euchre and pinochle down at the Knights of Columbus. They all went "Over the Top" for the last time by 1979. God Bless 'em all.

[file83]

6. Damn, 108 is so FUCKING OLD!!!!

Those dudes were born in 1900. Thy were my age in 1936!!! Think of everything they saw after 1936 until now.

Amazing.

[Olney Blue]

3. K/R

:patriot:

[AwakeAtLast]

4. RIP

:patriot:

[msedano]

5. QEPD. RIP.

My next door neighbor in the 50s was a WWI vet. My dad is a WWII vet. I put in my 19 months in 69-70, 8th Army Korea of all places.

Old Mr. Gardner had been through mustard gas. On regular occasions we'd all pile into our old Plymouth and drive Mr. Gardner from Redlands to the VA Hospital in Long Beach. He would tell us about the war, the attacks, the clouds of gas. Damn, that was a shitty way to die, not that living with chemical scarred lungs was any better.

QEPD = Que en paz descanse. Mr. Gardner. Mr. Landis. Present arms! (taps). Ready, two.