Canada's last WW I veteran dies

[dunl]

Rest in peace, John.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/ ... an018.html

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1473535/

[Lenard]

Damn, 109 years old :bowdown:

[mjeff87]

rest easy Mr. Babcock......many should take a lesson from his desire to serve country :Canadaflag:

 

Jeff

[jpnjim]

RIP

[Wildman]

:shake: Someones going to get sent to the corner again :no:

 

 

 

109 years old :eek:

 

(have to tell my 93 year old father that one, of course he's still living WW2 :roll: )

 

Quite the story there :bowdown:

 

RIP

[Silver88]

A true Patriot and Hero. :USAflag: :Canadaflag:

[Oizarod115]

A true Patriot and Hero. :USAflag: :Canadaflag:

said enough for me so i'll just repost it. :Canadaflag: :USAflag:

[freakjeep93]

thats there is a true patriot. the fact that he wanted to go to the front lines shows how much he loved his country. :Canadaflag: :USAflag: the world not just canada should mourn his death as we need more people like him

[dunl]

Thank you to the admin/staff team for cleaning and posting this back up.

[freakjeep93]

what happened to it?

[Automan2164]

what happened to it?

 

Nothing.

 

Rob L.

[freakjeep93]

okay

[Wildman]

what happened to it?

 

The first time you weren't on here for 22 hours straight, and you missed a snowball fight :peek:

 

 

Yea, thanks for cleaning this up and bringing it back, it's informative information that belongs here :yes:

[JeepcoMJ]

While it's a shame he died, I also was unaware of any military activity by canada during any of the world wars.

 

R.I.P. to the brave souls who have served and died for all of us.

[dunl]

While it's a shame he died, I also was unaware of any military activity by canada during any of the world wars.

 

R.I.P. to the brave souls who have served and died for all of us.

:shake:

[JeepcoMJ]

While it's a shame he died, I also was unaware of any military activity by canada during any of the world wars.

 

R.I.P. to the brave souls who have served and died for all of us.

:shake:

 

what? they don't teach it in our schools, and if they did it was a brief mention. and please don't disrespect the respect I have for those defending us.

[DJM/78]

While it's a shame he died, I also was unaware of any military activity by canada during any of the world wars.

 

R.I.P. to the brave souls who have served and died for all of us.

:shake:

 

what? they don't teach it in our schools, and if they did it was a brief mention. and please don't disrespect the respect I have for those defending us.

 

They don't teach anything about modern wars , too politicly incorrect !! :D

 

Wars don't keep a good eye in the media , so allot of people run from the responsibilities of having to explain them .

Or try and fail because they weren't there .

 

As a matter of fact , I served with a couple Canadian Commando's during cross training , throughout Airborne school it wasn't

uncommon to sit at a chow table and have a good conversation with a Canadian Commando , Israeli Spec Ops. and a couple of

Army and Marine grunts actually getting along !

What a bunch of cool people who sign up to have their @ss blown off . Glad to have served and known them . :thumbsup:

[Eagle]

ALERT: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS GROSS OVER-SIMPLIFICATIONS.

 

People were different back then. For WW1 and again for WW2 there were people lying about their age to get INTO the army (or Navy, or whatever) to serve. Fast forward to the Vietnam era, and people were doing just about anything they could think of to avoid entering the military and serving their country.

 

My late grandfather didn't make it to nearly 109 years of age, but he was in some respects like this gentleman. My grandfather was American, but the family heritage (especially on his side) was English and Scottish. My grandfather had just finished college when WW1 broke out. The United States would not enter the war for another two years. My grandfather felt so strongly about it that he went to Scotland and enlisted in the Black Watch.

 

Like Mr. Babcock, my grandfather didn't see combat. Although he was accepted and officially enrolled, he was subsequently discharged for medical reasons as being unsuitable for combat. He was always disappointed that he didn't get to serve, but he was nonetheless proud to be able to say that he had been a member of Scotland's famed Black Watch.

 

In WW2, my father and both of his brothers served, my mother's brother served, and the husband of my mother's sister served. In my generation, only one male cousin and I went in. I had a first cousin once removed (my mother's first cousin) who served in three wars: he was a pilot in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam.

 

The world might be a better place today if more people today might be less interested in taking and more interested in serving.

 

R.I.P. Mr. Babcock. He represents the end of an era.

[freakjeep93]

well said