Last WWI combat vet, 110, dies in Australia

[oldcelt]

usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-05-world-war-I-veteran-dies_n.htm

SYDNEY (AP) — The last known combat veteran of World War I was defiant of the tolls of time, a centenarian who swam in the sea, twirled across dance floors, and published his first book at 108. He also refused to submit to his place in history, becoming a pacifist who wouldn’t march in parades commemorating wars like the one that made him famous.

RIP,

John

 

[YankeeRC]

usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-05-world-war-I-veteran-dies_n.htm

RIP,

John

The War to End All Wars, how little we knew.

RIP Mr. Choules.

 

[oldcelt]

The War to End All Wars, how little we knew.

Amen to that,

John

 

[Big_Ro]

Yup, amen to that. I like your signature Oldcelt. Too bad it got Lincoln shot.

 

[Skeptic92]

He served us, that we might be free, head first into a war that wasn’t his to fight (twice) and came out still alive, may God welcome him into his arms, he saw evils that we can only imagine, and he kept marching on, for us, for our freedom.

Let us remember him, his brothers in arms and what they fought for
lest we forget
for "‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ " (George Santayana)

Requiescant in Pace

 

[kimmielittle]

He served us, that we might be free, head first into a war that wasn’t his to fight (twice) and came out still alive, may God welcome him into his arms, he saw evils that we can only imagine, and he kept marching on, for us, for our freedom.

Let us remember him, his brothers in arms and what they fought for
lest we forget
for "‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ " (George Santayana)

Requiescant in Pace

Amen

 

[Barbkw]

…published his first book at 108…

May his soul rest in peace with God.