WOW.. I am just getting really old.. I can't believe this is it.. I remember when there were still Civil War Vets still around!!! This is amazing/incredible/sad all at the same time. How honorable that he is being recognized.. C/P caption and article below:
The coffin of Britain's last World War I infantry veteran Harry Patch, is carried away after his memorial service at Wells Cathedral in Wells, England, Thursday, August 6, 2009. As a mark of reconciliation, soldiers from Britain, Belgium, France, and Germany, at left, walked behind the hearse carrying the coffin as it was driven through Wells, where thousands of people lined the streets to watch the funeral procession of Patch, who died aged 111, and who was a veteran of the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917
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