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It makes me sad that sooner rather than later WWII will be out of living memory
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:46 pm
I love hearing stories about it from my elderly family members and I can’t get enough content about it in terms of documentaries/movies/shows. But man it makes me sad that relatively soon no one Will be alive that experienced it home or abroad first hand. The sacrifice an entire country made wether fighting or living on rations and having very limited information and contact with those abroad. Women going to work in factories. Kids collecting scraps. Of course it’s been romanticized a bit but dammit I’m not sure we’d have that in us today. Maybe (Hopefully) that won’t ever Be needed again but that effort brought together an entire country in a way that hadn’t happened before and launched America And the rest of the world to where it is today.
Appreciate those folks while they’re around because they really are a treasure. Their stories are invaluable.
Appreciate those folks while they’re around because they really are a treasure. Their stories are invaluable.
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Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:47 pm to jlovel7
Be happy we haven’t had WWIII since
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:48 pm to jlovel7
it's why it's important more than ever we support institutions that tell their story. we're so lucky to have the wwii museum in new orleans.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:50 pm to jlovel7
I'd guess the youngest ones are about 93 now. My paw paw died a few years ago. He was just shy of 100.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:01 pm to fallguy_1978
About 389,000 are still alive as of 2019. The Department of Veterans Affairs updates those statistics every year.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:02 pm to SCLibertarian
about 5000 in LA i think
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:02 pm to jlovel7
And who could forget the hard working generation of boomers they raised???
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:03 pm to jlovel7
Yep.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:05 pm to jlovel7
The greatest generation. Those in my family from that generation are long gone, but still a huge part of my life. So grateful to have been close to them.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:05 pm to jlovel7
Yeah it’s pretty crazy. Even someone born in 1945 is 75 now. Anyone old enough to really remember stuff is in their mid to upper 80s. If you snuck into the military at 16 in 1945 you’re 91.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:10 pm to jlovel7
I try to speak to as many as I can. I've had the pleasure of knowing several WW2 veterans well. Most have passed through the recent years. It is sad, but I try to appreciate them while they are here, and listen when they speak. They hold alot of knowledge, outside of the war era stories.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:12 pm to The Boat
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Yeah it’s pretty crazy. Even someone born in 1945 is 75 now. Anyone old enough to really remember stuff is in their mid to upper 80s. If you snuck into the military at 16 in 1945 you’re 91.
And these are people that have lived longer than average lives. My great uncle served in the Pacific at 18, lived into his 70s and he's been dead over 20 years.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:13 pm to The Boat
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Yeah it’s pretty crazy. Even someone born in 1945 is 75 now. Anyone old enough to really remember stuff is in their mid to upper 80s. If you snuck into the military at 16 in 1945 you’re 9
Not sure why that gave me anxiety.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:14 pm to The Boat
frick it. I’m starting a band of brothers rewatch.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:16 pm to Chad504boy
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Be happy we haven’t had WWIII since
History repeats itself too much. I think it’s inevitable. Someone’s economy will eventually drain and they’re going to have to make changes and pick a fight with someone.
Personally, I think the US has gotten to the point socially where too many people think facism is the way to go and that message will eventually spread. Seems like throughout history, every country goes through something like that.
Within the next 100 years, there will be a dramatic shift at some point and there will be a major, major conflict somewhere, somehow.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:24 pm to jlovel7
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I love hearing stories about it from my elderly family members
Yep. My dad was in the pacific and on the second ship into Tokyo and it was great to hear his stories.
I think the WWII Museum and other places have collected audio and video records from some of the people who were in the war.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:24 pm to fallguy_1978
Knowledge of history is diminishing as time goes on. I had this conversation with a co-worker who is in their 20s who didn't understand the Snoopy WWI references in the Great Pumpkin. I told them that when that was made, WWI was as recent to that time as the Moon landing is to now. They had very little knowledge of the details of the Moon landing. Sad.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:25 pm to jlovel7
When they all die off can we finally talk about some of the good the Nazis did?
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:32 pm to jlovel7
Yet in the former USSR territories it's still a national holiday 
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:56 pm to HeadSlash
my dad would have been 94 in March...I wish he'd told someone his entire story...
was drafted in June 44, retrained as an infantryman in January 45, turned 19 on the troopship to Europe, worked his way thru the replacement system to an AAA unit around Madgeburg just before the shooting stopped...
served in Munich and Nurenburg before being shipped back in June 46...
was drafted in June 44, retrained as an infantryman in January 45, turned 19 on the troopship to Europe, worked his way thru the replacement system to an AAA unit around Madgeburg just before the shooting stopped...
served in Munich and Nurenburg before being shipped back in June 46...
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