Sunday, November 11, 2012

Happy Veterans' Day #6 -- November 11, 2012

Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans out there. Thank you for your service to your country.

This is the 94th anniversary of Armistice Day. The last surviving World War One veteran, Florence Green of the RAF, died on 04-February-2012. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules of the Royal Navy, who died in May, 2011. The last US veteran was Frank Buckles, who died in February, 2011.

The poster, by Charles Buckles Falls, is from the site LearnNC (http://www.learnnc.org/).  

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