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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/g...llery_ww1.shtml
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105 und 107 Jahre alt... wenn jemand diese Zeitzeugen noch etwas fragen möchte, sollte er sich besser sputen.
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Hmm, maybe war is healthy for you, if you survive it…
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| Smirnoff hat folgendes geschrieben: | | Hmm, maybe war is healthy for you, if you survive it… |
In my opinion, lifetime depends more on one's genes than on anything else.
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War is tough on everybody experiencing it. One of these old fellows was in tears on a BBC program recounting how a friend of his got blown up by a boobytrap. That was 80-odd years later mind you, yet it still brought him to tears after all this time...
If you check on Iraq war related news regularly, you can see how veterans/survivors are NOT coping well, physically and mentally, despite being better protected than WWI soldiers
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Do you really think I was serious? It was a very sarcastic and perhaps insensitive comment by me.
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:-)
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I'm surpried the 107 year old still had the energy to go looking for girls. I see he got a hot looking chick
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The Oldest war veteran is a turk man,, he served the ottoman empire (turkey) in gallipoli
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http://www.diggerhistory2.info/grav.../tk-veteran.htm
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That would make him an 1884 birth - quite impressive. At the beginning of the Balkan Wars, he'd already have been 28, and at the end of the Great War, 34. The War of Independence would see him at 38, and the end of WWII at 51. Not bad...
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He had an exciting life!
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hah yeah a long and exciting life indeed 
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"If you check on Iraq war related news regularly, you can see how veterans/survivors are NOT coping well, physically and mentally, despite being better protected than WWI soldiers"
Of course in any war that's bound to happen and it does affect everyone to some degree. My grandpa never spoke about his time in the Pacific during WWII until a few years ago, and I'm the only person that my uncle has ever really talked to about his four tours in Vietnam. Most of the people I work with have been to the Stan or the sandbox and function completely normal. One of my Sergeants (he served 1 tour in Afghanistan and two in Iraq) was telling me how he kept seeing his dead buddies walking around when he got home and it kinda messed him up. But he's over it, and can't wait to go back. Everyone's different and war will affect you in different ways. I'll be heading "over there" within the next few months, and honestly have no idea how I'll be when I get back. Some guys seem to not really be affected at all when they get home. Before I joined the Army I had a manager who was a Marine that just got back from Iraq and he actually enjoyed it (probably just because he's a little nuts from being a Marine in the first place). The only time I ever saw him get emotional was when he told me about watching his best friend get his head blown off in a Humvee, but he did his duty and he's fine. The last time I heard from him he was heading off to their Force Recon school so he can go back over there. The news likes to play things up about the whole mess and will tell you that our troops aren't coping well, but those cases are few and far between. I just can't see how that can be true when so many vets want to go back. I guess only time will tell the effect the war had on us. Sorry for getting a little off topic but I just needed to get that out...
-Hooah!
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Good luck out of there , how are you against this war , wich isn't quite popular here over in Europe
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OMFG!
105 and 107 years???????????????
That´s impressive!
He just saw all the wars that happened on the 20th century!
WWI-WWII-Korea-Vietnam-Gulf and maybe this new Iraq "war"!
My grandfather who was a sargeant at the time of the war (WWII),almost had to put his feet on Italy.
But the war ended.
He said he had a friend who was multilated and killed by a grenade (Maybe in Monte Cassino or Monte Castello).
He just haven´t saw service because he was...er...He had studied to a level that was high and amazing at that time,so he was rare and worked at the FEB office in a city near where I live.
He was born in 1918,on september,on the end of the war.
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