Tfw all WW1 vets are dead

>tfw all WW1 vets are dead
>tfw all WW2 vets will be dead soon

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>ww3 vets will soon exist

>grandpa had to serve in WW2
>got wounded by a grenade
>worked hard his whole life
>was only 16 when he was wounded
It must have been so frightening to see your entire country crumble, knowing that a horde of raping, pillaging, murdering and torturing Russians comes your way. The thought alone is frightening, just reading about it makes me feel sick. Can't imagine what it was like to really go through all of this.

I had a great great uncle that was an Army Engineer Normandy through Bastogne. He passed a few years ago and I regret not asking about it. I was always told he didn't like to talk about it so I didn't ask out of fear/respect. He was about 20 when he hit the beaches.

aren't old vets more likely to share their experiences since they know they're going to die soon anyway and might feel better taking off that awful shit they experienced off their conscience

Shut up you American larp fag.

>grandpa had to serve in WW2
>got wounded by a grenade
>worked hard his whole life
>was only 16 when he was wounded
It must have been so frightening to see your entire country crumble, knowing that a horde of raping, pillaging, murdering and torturing Germans comes your way. The thought alone is frightening, just reading about it makes me feel sick. Can't imagine what it was like to really go through all of this.

How long til their graves get bulldozed for migrant housing developments?

Thank the servicemen for giving their all in defense of the country in the face of invasion

Great grandpa served in ww1 for france against his will at age 17.
survive disease and death.
comes back,marries have kids. ditches world war 2. stays alive, dies in 1979.

>survive death

maybe he survived the spanish flu

I'm happy when the last holocaust survivor finally dies

My grandfather was an italian soldier that got sent in a concentration camp after Italy surrendered to the allies
He worked for a nice german woman whom he called Frau as a form of respect as a stallier
He said they were severely malnourished, had to survive by exchanging a golden watch he found while marching to the camp with a german soldier in exchange of a slice of potato which he divided with other soldiers
He ate mouses and rats too
He noted that ill people who lamented their condition to the nazis disappeared forever so he always pretended to be healthy even when he was not
He also noted that jews were treated badly, but the worst fate was of the russians who resorted to cannibalize each other
He was saved by female russians soldiers, had to pass the alps, frozing and damaging his left leg by doing so but was finally able to return to sardinia by boat at the end of the war

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

>dad knew a German WWI vet growing up
>he got captured by the French and "didn't like to talk about the war"
>this guy in my hometown was in the 101st at Bastogne, never really knew him
>died several years ago

RIP Paul Waldo, Gott mit dir

Grandfather was in the Navy during WW2.

I was only like 7 when he died, so I didn't get to ask him about anything. All I know is that he served on a ship that towed damaged ships into harbor to be repaired. He also fell off one of the decks during a storm and broke his back. Got taken to a hospital in California and got fixed up.

It's just so surreal to me to think that a close relative was alive while Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc. were all in power.

I know a woman still alive who was alive when Berlin fell and remembers hearing Hitler speak on the radio, as well as Kennedy visiting. Her dad was killed in Belarus in 44.

In 2017 someone is still alive who heard someone born in the 1800s speak on a radio.

>grandpa had to serve in WW2
>got wounded by a grenade
>worked hard his whore rife
>was only 16 when he was wounded
It must have been so frightening to see your entire country crumble, knowing that a horde of raping, pirraging, murdering and torturing Americans comes your way. The thought arone is frightening, just reading about it makes me feer sick. Can't imagine what it was rike to reary go rough all of this.

>tfw 20
>tfw 70 years ago guys younger than me were fighting and putting everything on the line to go fight for my peoples very existence
makes me feel like a waste desu

What's with the tankies?

>he unironically supports Nazi Germany
Pathetic desu senpai

Sure were a lot of survivors of the Holocaust, huh?

>He doesn't support Nazi Germany
Pretty pathetic nigger faggot

My Great Grandfather fought in WW1. I used to take him his dinner some nights, and then sit with him. Sometimes, he would talk about his experiences, but I was just a kid and I never really asked him the kinds of questions I'd liked to have. He was a gentle soul who loved gardening and never had an unkind word to say about anyone, I can only imagine the difficulty such a sweet man had dealing with the horrors he saw.

They fought so migrants could come to their country and take over, even if they didn't realize it at the time. They killed off ethnic nationalism in the West forever and now they are getting the future they deserve.

My great grandfather fought in WW1 on the Eastern front, then got conscripted in WW2 and got sent backto Russia, from what my dad told me he fought at Kursk. I have a great uncle that is still alivethat was in the HitlerYouth and saw combat and apparently killed an American, according to my Grandmother.

On my mom's side, my grandfather's mom was shot in a field in front of him by Germans during their occupation of Yugoslavia when he was 8 years old.

>Not supporting Greater People's Socialist Republic of Albania during the second world war

Why even live?

That's interesting, our uncle's might have served together. Uncle Cecil was an Engineer that served from Normandy to Bastogne as well, got a personal commendation for running CASEVAC from the line to the town. The unit got a PUC, he got a Bronze Star with V. He stepped on a mine shortly after the Battle of the Bulge and was KIA.

Do you know what unit your Uncle was with? I don't have it right in front of me but I'll look up my uncle's unit and report back. We had to do some pretty intense research into where he served and what medals he was awarded since the Archive fire destroyed most of the records. It would be pretty neat if our uncle's were in the same unit.
Old vets still don't like to share their stories with any one who isn't a vet themselves. After I came home from Iraq I went to a homecoming dinner at my old church, and our last remaining WWII veteran came and sat outside with me and smoked (he'd quit smoking sometime in the 70's) and told me stories for about 2 hours. He'd never told them to anyone, not even his son. I'd known him for 20 years and had no idea he was a bazooka man, or that he'd won a silver star. It was extremely humbling and I'm glad I got the chance to sit with him, since he passed the next year.
One interesting story
>be 19 year old bazooka man
>company moving across some fields, have to cross a creek
>machine gun emplacement on the opposite bank, opens up as soon as we leave the tree line
>no other troops in sight, just this one emplacement
>still has us pinned down, NCOs trying to figure out if they should call for fire or just assault it
>notice that the sandbags have several liquor bottles sitting on them
>tell my Sgt. I can hit one
>"You sure?"
>"Sure as can be Sgt,"
>he tells LT, LT tells CO
>CO looks blown away, shrugs
>good enough for me
>fwooooossssshhhhh
>BINK
>*detonation in the distance*
>two Germans inmediately jump up and surrender
>"Told y'all I could hit it."
>mfw

Sardinia by boat? must have taken a couple of years minimum

Is anyone else getting the vibe of how ww1 is starting to feel like a really distant war,like the napaleonic wars?
Itll soon happen to ww2 aswell.
As soon as the veterans die,its gonna start to be mentioned less and less.
Just look a the russian 9th May Victory parade-there are so little ww2 vets left,people are walking just with their pictures

I wish he had died

My grandfather, Ephraim Zharnest was part of the Liberation of the Philippines in 1944.

>Ephraim
a jew?

>WWIII vets will record their experiences in shitty memes, social media, and blogs.

>no relative that fought in WWII
>tfw neighborhood was literally full of Pacific War Veterans

I'm very grateful to have been able to hear their stories, the things those men went through...

Surprisingly enough however, I've never met a Western Front veteran

I-is this copypasta?

Yes, he fought for the US army.

I fucking hate that feeling. Also related song,

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>ww1 & ww2 vets use art as a way to sort out their experiences - famous paintings, photographs, novels, poems, etc.
>ww3 vets use art as a way to sort out their experiences - smug pepe covered in guts12521.png, wojak trying to hold his guts in51212.jpg, >tfw you shot a qt3.14 nork stories on /wwvg/

>Irish family
>Splits at one point between irish and anglo-irish
>Have ancestors who both fought in WW1 and fought in the War of Independence+Irish Civil War
>tfw family spilled blood in wars against and alongside anglos

it's a strange feel

t. someone who gets their history from memes

I understood that reference. png

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>tfw boomers are majority voters