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RIP Harry Patch
« on: 25-07-2009, 18:07:07 »
Last last British survivor of the WW1 trenches died earlier today at the age of 111.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/5907316/Private-Harry-Patch.html

What a story to tell at the gates of heaven.  Salute for Harry Patch.
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #1 on: 25-07-2009, 19:07:50 »
I can't even imagine living to 111. I bet he accumulated a pretty good number of stories to tell by that time.

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #2 on: 25-07-2009, 19:07:23 »
RIP.

Last January I wrote a short piece for a magazine at my university about the last 8 living World War 1 veterans. Now there are only 3 left.

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #3 on: 25-07-2009, 20:07:48 »
 Age shall not weary then, nor the years condemn.
at the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.

 Let's see the article Mega, your Uni must have posted it online somewhere.

 The remaining men are John Babcock (Canadian soldier,currently American citizen) and who else?
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #4 on: 25-07-2009, 20:07:40 »
RIP. We will remember them.
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #5 on: 25-07-2009, 20:07:52 »
RIP.
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #6 on: 25-07-2009, 20:07:50 »
Age shall not weary then, nor the years condemn.
at the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.

 Let's see the article Mega, your Uni must have posted it online somewhere.

 The remaining men are John Babcock (Canadian soldier,currently American citizen) and who else?

American Frank Buckles, age 108 and Royal Navy veteran Claude Stanley Choules, also 108, who currently lives in Australia.

The article was extremely short and for the online version of the magazine, this is it in its entirety:

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In one year, they are almost all gone. 2008 saw the deaths of France, Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Germany’s last living World War I veterans. In the United States, our last surviving World War I veteran, Frank Buckles, is 107 years old. Around the world, there are seven living veterans of the first World War: Four British, one Australian, one Canadian, and Mr. Buckles.

Currently, there are 2.5 million American veterans of the Second World War still alive today, out of 16 million which served. Around 900 American World War II veterans die each day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Most of these veterans are in their eighties. Within the next 30 years, we will see the last World War II veterans pass away, and another war will fade from public memory. Only this time, the war was the greatest armed struggle in human history.

Remembering such a struggle, preserving the record of the world for time immemorial, is why history is not only an important field of study but a field which is vital to the maintenance of a working society. A society which forgets its past is condemned to repeat it. And a nation with no sense of where it came from has no future.

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #7 on: 25-07-2009, 22:07:48 »
Just 3 left....

RIP Patch :(

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #8 on: 25-07-2009, 22:07:20 »
With Patch passes the British generation that fought in the trenches. The Tommies are now history and memory rather than flesh and blood that we could still count among ourselves as Britons. A sobering day.

As the old song goes:

Old bloody soldiers never bloody die
Never bloody die
Never bloody die
Old bloody soldiers never bloody die
They only fade away.


RIP Harry, and all those before you who bore a rifle and tin hat for their country. We shall not forget what your generation did for us.
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #9 on: 26-07-2009, 16:07:08 »
The reaper gets you sooner or later. Still a pity. Excuse me for not paying my respects through internet (RIP, [ * ] etc) as I just don't acknowledge that kind of thing. My two cents.

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #10 on: 26-07-2009, 22:07:26 »
Ernst Barkmann also recently died

May them all rest in peace.
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #11 on: 26-07-2009, 23:07:28 »
Ernst Barkmann also recently died

May them all rest in peace.

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #12 on: 27-07-2009, 08:07:02 »
The memories of war will always live on within the pictures, film, books, stories, and the descendants of the veterans.

RIP

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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #13 on: 27-07-2009, 14:07:56 »
Its a shame to see these people perish.I would give money to just sit with them all day and listen to their storys
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Re: RIP Harry Patch
« Reply #14 on: 27-07-2009, 15:07:53 »
A shame, it won't be long untill not a single WW1 vet is around anymore. :(

RIP.

Its a shame to see these people perish.I would give money to just sit with them all day and listen to their storys
Well if you truely wanted to you coudl catch a plane & car and look those people up (provided they want to talk in a private atmopshere  and you know where to find them).