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Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: October 07, 2012 04:05AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: Speedy
Date: October 07, 2012 05:06AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: DP
Date: October 07, 2012 07:05AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: MrNoBody
Date: October 07, 2012 09:14AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: davester
Date: October 07, 2012 09:38AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: testcase
Date: October 07, 2012 09:46AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: samintx
Date: October 07, 2012 09:48AM
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Re: Last Active Duty WW2 vet dies
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: October 08, 2012 05:13PM
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davester
That's a screwed up headline. Where are the copy editors? I took it to mean that he was the last living vet to be on active duty in WWII (which is wrong). There are still plenty of active duty WWII vets alive.
The real story is that Captain Fox actually left the armed forces after WWII but later enlisted in the Coast Guard and then retired in 1999, thus being the WWII vet who most recently participated in active duty. The headline should have read "WWII vet with most recent active duty dies".