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Showing Respect for Nation, Those Who Served ItFebruary 4, 2013America’s last surviving World War I veteran, West Virginian Frank Woodruff Buckles, died in February of 2011. Though we never met, I grew up with many of his Doughboy contemporaries.... Showing 1 of 1 comments
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rover1958
As Rudyard Kipling noted in his poem 'Tommy' (the British equivalant for GI Joe):
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of his country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
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