All of the WW II vets I have known are long passed. My father was a navy vet, serving in the Pacific from 1942-45. He died in 2000 at the age of 83 of lung cancer. Many of my high school teachers and college professors were WW II vets as well as two of my uncles and several of my father's cousins. My ex-wife's father was a sailor in the Atlantic during the war. My wife's father lied about his age and joined the army during the very last days of the war, never going overseas. His older brother (my wife's uncle) was a submariner in the Pacific. All gone now. WW II vets are pretty rare now. For that matter, Korean War vets have gotten quite uncommon now.
"...why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for,... because it is the only thing that lasts."
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