2007-01-09 02:43:48 · 15 answers · asked by jayne h 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Thousands of people..... all about 75 to 80 years old.
Many of them... like my uncle Joe from Altoona, Pa.. are just now feeling comfortable about talking about some terrible experiences. Being a Prisoner of War. Killing someone. Seeing a best friend die. Children die. Starving. begging.
It does some good to finally come to terms with these horrors in a young soldier's memory.
Maybe you could find an elderly relative or stranger and just pass some time with them. Let them open up to you, and reminesce.
2007-01-09 02:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any American man over the age of 80 was probably either involved with the war effort or a soldier, and a good many women were also involved. Any person over 70 in any country affected by the war (which was most countries) was old enough to remember at least something about those years.
2007-01-09 10:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by triviatm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are still a lot of people alive from WW2.
In London we have the Chelsea Pensioners who fought in the war.
2007-01-09 10:48:42 · answer #3 · answered by Bella 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul Newman, Jean Chretien, the Queen, Keith Richards, Regis Philbin, Osama bin Laden and Hugh Downs
2007-01-09 10:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by Glen Quagmire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people are still alive from WW2, My Dad, my next door neighbor, Many US senators. WW2 is not as ancient history as you think, those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
2007-01-09 10:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by al 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a boy named Elie Weisel survived the holocaust and wrote a book about it that won I think a Nobel or pulitzer prize. The book
is called "Night" if you want to read it.
2007-01-09 15:39:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.....Bob Dole for one.....er um .. and oh yeah... that guy down the street who thinks there are Japanese soldiers hiding in his wifes flower garden...he is such a trip...except on halloween and rainy days... then the whole block goes on lock down while the cops circle the block looking for sgt.Falsgraf . then when they finally get him back into his house we all come outside and salute the flag as it is slowly raised above his heavily fortified bungalow . ahhhh i love this country.......
2007-01-09 11:19:01 · answer #7 · answered by trifecta70 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my grandma, but she thinks she still is in the 1940s and she flirt with the waiters like she's 60 years younger too
2007-01-09 10:47:32 · answer #8 · answered by Juleette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All 4 of my grandparents (both grandads fought in it) and some of their brothers and sisters. My one aunt was also born during it.
2007-01-09 11:51:11 · answer #9 · answered by tabithap 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, my grandfater wasnt IN ww2, but he was born in 1912 and he's still alive and going strong
2007-01-09 10:46:49 · answer #10 · answered by mickey g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋