The last Medal of Honor recipient to have stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day dies

[Raunchy The Pirate]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564838/The-Medal-Honor-recipient-stormed-Omaha-Beach-D-Day-dies-92.html

[Pacific War]

I find that, as they die, so does my interest in WWII.  That’s sad because the study of WWII pretty much dominated my life for many years.

[General Haig]

Don’t lose your interest for we also are getting fewer and will go the way of the veterans. Gaming carries on remembering those that sacrificed to allow us to be here today at this moment.

[Witt]

Thank you Raunchy. Always enjoy stories like that.

[CWO Marc]

@General:

Don’t lose your interest for we also are getting fewer and will go the way of the veterans. Gaming carries on remembering those that sacrificed to allow us to be here today at this moment.

Yes and I think that, as more and more WWII veterans pass on, it’s important for those of us with an interest in WWII to sustain that interest on behalf of the people who actually lived through the conflict.  Their departures will inevitably lead to the sad day when first-hand experience of WWII will no longer be within the living memory of anyone around us – but there are no limits to the duration of second-hand interest in WWII, which will go on for as long as anyone cares to study the subject and to recognize its enormous importance in the course of world history.