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This is an incomplete list of the last surviving veterans of American wars. Exactly who is the last surviving veteran is often an issue of contention, especially with records from long-ago wars. The "last man standing" was often very young at the time of enlistment and in many cases had lied about his age to gain entry into the service, which ...
A Vietnam veteran is an individual who performed active military, naval, or air service in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. [1] New Zealand Army veteran Rob Munro (left), receiving a Mention-in-dispatch award from Governor-General Patsy Reddy for action in Vietnam. The term has been used to describe veterans who served in the ...
Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. ( VVA) is a national non-profit corporation founded in 1978 in the United States that is committed to serving the needs of all veterans. It is funded without any contribution from any branch of government. VVA is the only such organization chartered by the United States Congress and dedicated to Vietnam War ...
"A band of brothers, soldiers who survived unimaginable experiences in the jungles of Vietnam were reunited for the first time in more than 40 years." "When I found out they were alive I was ...
March 29 was chosen as Vietnam Veterans Day because on that day in 1973, the last U.S. combat troops departed South Vietnam following a lengthy and costly war that made many Americans reconsider ...
The inventor of Bluetooth on where wireless is going next. Twenty-two years after designing Bluetooth 1.0, Jaap Haartsen is still working to push the standard forward. Bluetooth has come a long ...
One of the oldest veterans to attend was Dan McKinney, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He also was a Prisoner of War (POW) in Korea at a time when they didn’t follow rules of the ...
French Revolution (1789–1799) Giovanni Battista Campanella (1776–1884) – France. Served in Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the 1812 Russian campaign. [46] [47] Arthur Dardenne (1776–1872) – France. Last surviving person to have taken part in the Storming of the Bastille. [48] Nicolas Savin (1768 or 1787–1894 ...