One of the Last WWI vets has died
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Topic: One of the Last WWI vets has died
Posted By: Ponce de Leon
Subject: One of the Last WWI vets has died
Date Posted: 21-Dec-2007 at 20:51
Sad news, we are losing one of the oldest generations of our time 
One of the Last World War I Veterans Dies at 109NORTH BALTIMORE, Ohio — The last World War I veteran in Ohio, and one of only three known remaining U.S. veterans of the conflict, has died. J. Russell Coffey was the last WWI vet in the state, according to the Veterans Affairs Department. He died Thursday at the age of 109, said the Smith-Crates Funeral Home in North Baltimore, about 35 miles south of Toledo. The funeral home did not say where Coffey died or the cause of death. He had been living in the Blakely Care Center, a nursing home. Coffey, born Sept. 1, 1898, did not see action overseas. He enlisted in the Army while he was a student at Ohio State University in October 1918, a month before the Allied powers and Germany signed a cease-fire agreement. Coffey played semipro baseball, earned a doctorate in education from New York University, taught high school and college and raised a family. He drove his car until he was 104 and lived on his own until three years ago, according to the funeral home. The other known surviving American soldiers are Frank Buckles, 106, of Charles Town, W.Va., and Harry Landis, of Sun City Center, Fla., according to the Veterans Affairs Department. |
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Posted By: Kamikaze 738
Date Posted: 21-Dec-2007 at 23:44
| Damn, may he RIP. |
Posted By: Justinian
Date Posted: 27-Dec-2007 at 20:18
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Its sad, WWII overshadows WWI so much as it is now. It will be even more so once no one is left around (not far off) who was involved in the great war. ------------- "War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."--Thomas Mann 
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