The Very Last World War I Veteran Has Died

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The Very Last World War I Veteran Has Died - Global - The Atlantic Wire

A British woman who served with the Royal Air Force for the last two months of World War I was the last known veteran of the war when she died in her sleep Saturday night. Florence Green joined the RAF at the age of 17 and died just before her 111th birthday, which would have been Feb. 19. She had been a mess steward with the air force, the BBC reported, serving in two U.K. air bases after she joined up on Sept. 13 1918. The Allies signed the armistice with Germany on Nov. 11, 1918. Green follows Claude Choules, a Royal Navy sailor who was the last WWI combatant before he died in May 2011, and Frank Buckles, the last American veteran of the war, who died in February 2011. All were 110 years old.

I recall the words of General Patton in the last year of his life

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston Massachusetts, 7 June 1945

Let us thank God women like Miss Green lived. RIP

Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.