US Veterans Remembered by Conflict

[noboundaries]

It is so easy to focus on the period of conflict when remembering US Veterans. The American Civil War, for example, occurred between 1861 and 1865, but the last "confirmed" Civil War veteran died in 1956, which bridges the time between that war and many of our lives.

Below is a Wikipedia list of the names and dates of passing of the last known veterans of conflicts that involved citizens of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_surviving_United_States_war_veterans

 

[Bearcarver]

Interesting!!
Amazing how many of these guys lived close to or over 100 years, especially back in those days.

Bear

 

[motocrash]

Check this out.You can't go far around here without seeing a memorial.Our seal tells the story very well.If not into reading the whole thing read 1.5.,1.6 and 1.7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester,_Virginia

Bill

 

[johnmeyer]

Interesting about the overlap we have with veterans and civilians involved with previous wars. I remember my surprise when my late father told me that he had an ex-slave working at his house when he was young. He was born in 1920 and moved from St. Louis to Chicago when he was nine. He remembered this, so he had to be somewhere between five and nine. I did the calculation, and someone born before 1863 (the date of the emancipation proclamation) would have only been sixty-five, my current age. My dad died when he was eighty-four, but my mother's brother (who fought in the Battle of the Bulge) is only two years younger and is still alive. Therefore, there are still people alive who knew people who were slaves.

 

[gmc2003]

When I was younger I remember watching an old black and white game show I think it was "I've got a secret" They had the last known survivor to witness president Lincoln's assassination. The show aired in the 1950's and I saw in sometime in the 70's.

 

[johnmeyer]

When I was younger I remember watching an old black and white game show I think it was "I've got a secret" They had the last known survivor to witness president Lincoln's assassination. The show aired in the 1950's and I saw in sometime in the 70's.

Wow, that would have been something, although it does stretch the math quite a bit. He was killed in 1865, and that show first aired the year I was born, 1952. If the person was ten when he/she attended the play at Ford Theater, they would have been 97 when the TV show aired, if it was from the first season.

My favorite from that show, which I watched when it was on, but this one I obviously saw years later, during syndicated reruns, was when the contestants were the parents of an astronaut. This was well after the original seven astronauts, and no one associated their last name, Armstrong, with an astronaut. After the secret was revealed, Gary Moore (the host) asked them something like, "what would you think if your son became the first man to walk on the moon?" Pretty amazing to have asked that question, and have it survive on Kinescope all these years later.