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2月6日 Old Soldiers Just Fade AwayJust for the record, the following excerpt is very sad for me. I
once worked in the lab at Hines VA hospital in Maywood when the half mile long hospital was filled with WWI veterans. One of my jobs was to go to their bedsides to draw blood for the lab. Now there is but one left....rrg And Then There Was One Living memories of World War I are close to vanishing entirely. One of the last two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I has died. Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918, had lived for 108 years. He never saw action, but trained for 60 days at the end of the war, which was enough for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to count him as a veteran. When asked in an interview last year if he wanted to get into the fight, Mr. Landis replied, "No.'' According to the Department of Veteran Affairs, the last remaining U.S. veteran is Frank Buckles, 107, of Charles Town, W.Va. The last time all known U.S. veterans of a war died was in 1992, when Nathan E. Cook, who served as a sailor in the Spanish-American War of 1898 in the days when 12-year-olds could do such a thing, passed away at age 106. --The Associated Press contributed to this column Nation of Laws?We boast that ours is a government of laws, yet
we seem deaf and blind to our government which patently and bipartisanly
disobeys the constitution daily, to wit: 1. Earmarks which are not actual laws;
2. Declarations of principles with foreign states which are designed as treaties
but which evade the treaty process of legislative approval; 3. signing
statements by the president which are obviously evasions of the forbidden line
item veto. Why do we corrupt ourselves? |
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