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2006-11-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Remaining World War I survivors are dwindling

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Posted by tu3031 2006-11-11 10:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Only 4 poilus (WWI grunts) left in France; 1,4 millions killed in the defense of the patrie, 10% of all male population, all to finally arrive to Eurabia. Oh, well.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-11 10:26|| 2006-11-11 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I will never forget as a youth in Phoenix seeing a Veterans day parade with several WWI vets, and believe it or not a couple of Spanish-American War Vets going by in a car. It was probably 1978. Apparantly a lot of WWI vets who were exposed to Gas lived in AZ because the climate was more comfortable for them, given their lung issues. Also, a lot of retirees in general lived there. They really saw a lot over their lifetimes.

Posted by JAB 2006-11-11 11:11|| 2006-11-11 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Amazing men the heard the call.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-11-11 12:51|| 2006-11-11 12:51|| Front Page Top

Have faith 5089, they still ain't gonna get by.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-11 15:39|| 2006-11-11 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet On The Western Front", did not fight in the war, and yet had a marvelous gift of expressing what those who did went through. But few people are aware of the sequel he wrote to his great novel.

"The Road Back", shows the despair, poverty and misery of the German vets after the war, and features a silent parade of the horribly wounded, crippled and disfigured soldiers, demanding just a pittance on which to survive--a pittance refused by their homeland.

And yet, in the United States, our World War I veterans faced a similar struggle against a government equally unwilling to pay a pittance to impoverished veterans.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-11 18:40|| 2006-11-11 18:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Germany was hardest hit by the Great Depression on top of the reparations demanded by the victors, Anonymoose. There was nothing from which to give. That America also did nothing, however, is inexcusably shameful.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-11 23:09|| 2006-11-11 23:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Granted, given that the Great Depression was decade later, perhaps my point isn't completely valid, although the need to pay reparations did take a lot out of the German economy.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-11 23:21|| 2006-11-11 23:21|| Front Page Top

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