The Daily Populous Sunday November 24th, 2024 day edition
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Martsigras on November 24th, 2024 at 01:33 UTC »

And the band played the Walzing Matilda And the old men still answered the call But year after year, the numbers got fewer Someday no-one will march there at all

kshump on November 24th, 2024 at 01:37 UTC »

My parents live in Normandy and there's a Canadian dude who was a part of the D-Day landings that comes back periodically for the celebrations there. Still kicking, he is. Not kicking very high, but still kicking.

Edit: Point is, it's a rapidly vanishing population, and it's super cool and interesting to be able to interact with those folks while they're still around. Both of my grandfathers fought, but they're both gone now, so I don't think I'll know any more about their stories than I will at this point.

Waterwoogem on November 24th, 2024 at 02:01 UTC »

The current oldest veteran is Ilie Ciocan of Romania, born in 1913.