Fewer than 100 WWI veterans remain alive

by Soledad 18 Replies latest social current

  • Soledad
    Soledad

  • blondie
    blondie

    The 1914 Generation

  • Darth Yhwh
    Darth Yhwh
    The 1914 Generation

    My thoughts exactly. I heard on the radio this morning that fewer than 30 US WWI veterans collect government medical care (or was it social security). Cant quite remember, it was early in the morning.

  • VM44
    VM44

    What will The Watchtower say when the year 2014 comes around? --VM44

  • sir82
    sir82

    It's a long way, to Tipperary,

    It's a long way, to go...

  • luna2
    luna2

    Good thing that light got brighter and they knew to scrap the 1914 generation bologna doctrine well before everyone from that era died.

    Oh, Jebooboo, we thank you for your flashing strobe light and how you open our eyes to change the mistaken, old light of yesteryear in plenty of time so that we can pretend it never existed. Let us dance the bunny hop and drink copious amounts of alcohol in praise of your wonderous ways.

  • Sam the Man
    Sam the Man

    Jesus Christ, aren't we supposed to be paying respects to those who have lost their life through meaningless, manipulative wars instead of bringing up bullshit religious doctrine which has plagued us for years? There's surely a time and a place for all that - check out 99% of all the other threads.

  • Gerard
    Gerard
    The Census Bureau stopped asking for data about those veterans years ago. Using a report of 65,000 alive in 1990 as a baseline, the VA estimates that no more than 50 remain, perhaps as few as 30. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/11/vanishing.vets.ap/index.html
  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    I know many who are dying now in their mid -80s - which is quite a nice lifespan - but if you were born in 1914 yopu would now be 91. Time is running out hence the THEME FOR NEXT SUMMERS DISTRICT CONVENTIONS -- THE WTBTS is tryuing to capitalize on this their last chance

  • sir82
    sir82

    Say, now, wait a minute...

    Using a report of 65,000 alive in 1990 as a baseline, the VA estimates that no more than 50 remain, perhaps as few as 30.

    So, if there were 8000 Memorial partakers alive in 1990, and in general they were about the same age as WWI vets (perhaps a tad younger), how many would we expect to still be sippin' & crunchin' in 2005?

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