# 14 WWI U.S. Veterans Still Living **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010 "2006-11-11T15:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010/21 "2006-11-13T14:47:50Z")
Exactly how did Google come up with the ad: “Democrats Suck! Vote Republican!”? My dad remembers talking to civil war verterans as well. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010/22 "2006-11-14T00:30:00Z")
My dad remembers seeing fewer and fewer civil war vets in the parade each year. (He was born in 1942). Three of four years ago, I tracked down the number of surviving WWI vets as a trivia question (I think it was around 100), and there was still someone living receiving benefits for their CHILD. But that might well have been a case of a WWI parent later remarrying a younger person, so it was really their step-child. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010/23 "2006-11-14T00:57:18Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Does anyone recall the big parade in Heinlein’s short story “The Man Who Traveled in Elephants”? Written to be a contemporary story, in the late 1940’s, a contingent of veterans of different American wars was riding in the parade. One was mentioned as being the oldest, from the GAR. That would have been roughly equivalent to a WWI veteran being alive today. That story always brings tears to my eyes, especially the line that mentions why the old men were riding “\*because, merciful Heaven forgive us, they could not walk.” \* Hug a veteran indeed. [/QUOTE] GAR? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010/24 "2006-11-14T05:17:18Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] GAR? [/QUOTE] Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal veterans’ association. The Condederate veterans had their own organization but I’m drawing a blank on what its name was right now. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010/25 "2006-11-14T06:21:25Z")
The Confederate group was the UCV, United Confederate Veterans ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010/26 "2006-11-14T08:48:36Z")
I love this type of thing – reading about these people who are living links to what is practically ancient history. For anyone who’s interested in that type of thing, about a year ago I started a [similar thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335868) that yielded many interesting stories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-wwi-u-s-veterans-still-living/380010.md?page=1)