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Really like seeing Memorial Day event postings like those below. My grandfather left us a few years ago after serving in world war 2 and then crop farming in east central Minnesota for over sixty years.

Maybe someone on here has a good estimate, but anyone know how many ww2 vets are still around? It's sad to see the country they fought for has been slowly torn apart for so many decades. I don't want to start a political argument, just my opinion.
 
Do not know but seen somewhere while back that we are losing them at about 1000 a day or so. Got to think most are in their 90s.
 
Had two that attended the remembrance at the local cemetary that I will be buried at. One laid the wreath at the Soldiers Wall.
 
From the WWII museum in New Orleans effective 09/27/2016.
A must see if you ever get the chance.


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I retired from peddling ltl freight to half a dozen or so mid sized towns around West-Central Missouri in 1999. At that time, a week didn't pass that I didn't drop off 2 or 3 veteran's stones to some funeral parlor. I noted then there had to be a slowing down to a stop of those deliveries some day. Hat's off. gm
 
Considering that WWII went from 1939 to 1945, and that one had to be at least 17 to join the military with parental consent, that would make the youngest WWII veterans ion their late '80s. A 17 year old in 1945 would have been born in 1928. That would make him or her 89 years old this year. Accounting for the ones that were too young but lied about their age to get in the military, the youngest might be as young as 86 or 87. These people are not going to live forever. Sorry to see them go, but time marches on.
 
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