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[GainesT1958]

A gentleman who was 112--one of the oldest-living Americans, period--passed on. He was an aide to General Pershing during WWI, and said the General always spoke highly of him. It's a shame that we're losing the last of the "Doughboys", who were in a war with the first large-scale use of poison gasses as WMD, and many of whom felt the effects of it for the rest of their lives (including my maternal grandfather). They made it through the Depression, and fathered those we now call the "Greatest Generation"; those who fought--and otherwise served us--in WWII, and who, ironically, we're also losing many of on a monthly basis.

God bless Mr. Pugh, and all he, and his buddies in the trenches, on the sea, and in their flying machines, did to "make the world safe for democracy", as Woodrow Wilson put it. They will be sorely missed!

:-(

B-)