With the death of Russell Coffey, 109, the other day, the number of surviving veterans of the Great War has dwindled to about 20 worldwide. Sites on Wikipedia and Nonagenarians & Centenarians list the veterans. There is one Canadian, one Australian, two Americans, two Germans, three Italians, three French etc. There is little national or international recognition of these gentlemen (and one lady), which is typical and too bad. We are too busy creating more survivors of war than learning from those who have fought in the past.
I have written a novel entitled THEY WERE CALLED TO DUTY, which focuses on three aged veterans being interviewed by a veteran of the Iraqi conflict. Don't know if it will ever see the light of day. Probably not before the last of the centenarian veterans has past on.
Check out Wikipedia for a listing by country of those remaining and those who have recently died. Check out Nonagenarians & Centenarians for nice photos of the survivors.
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