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02-26-2019, 12:30 AM | #1 | ||
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Feb 26th, 2019: Vets
Is it really important who and when the last soldier to survive a war finally dies?
Nope... But I find it interesting how close that man came to us here today. Keep in mind it's really hard to pin down the absolute last one, there are challenges, but these are the current consensus. Lemuel Cook died in 1866, the last US veteran of the American Revolution. Hiram Cronk died in 1905, the last US veteran of the War of 1812. Owen Thomas Edgar died in 1929, the last US veteran of the Mexican war 1846-48. Pleasant Riggs Crump died in 1951, the last Confederate veteran of the Civil War. Albert Henry Woolson died in 1956, the last Union veteran of the Civil War. Nathan Cook died in 1992, the last US veteran of the Spanish-American war. Frank Buckles died in 2011, the last US combat vet of WW I. For the hell of it, Peter Mills died in 1972, probably the last US slave, outlived Martin Luther King. Now there are several other names claiming that title but... Quote:
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02-26-2019, 06:30 AM | #2 |
still says videotape
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You never get to the end of the story...
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02-26-2019, 11:20 AM | #3 |
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It kind of gave me a jolt to discover we have an actual photograph of a veteran of the revolution.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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02-26-2019, 11:47 PM | #5 |
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That's possible but that would work the opposite, making them younger not the oldest humans ever as a couple claimed.
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02-27-2019, 10:37 AM | #6 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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It was a potential explanation (ie, a guess) for why there wasn't a contender for the last living US slave who was younger than them.
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