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102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
« on: June 05, 2024, 02:50:53 pm »
102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
By COREY DICKSTEIN STARS AND STRIPES •
June 4, 2024

Navy veteran Robert Persichitti at the 74th Reunion of Honor ceremony on Iwo To, Japan, on March 23, 2019. The ceremony is held annually to commemorate the heroism and sacrifices made by service members during the Battle of Iwo Jima and World War II. Persichetti

 died Friday, May 31, 2024, on his way to the D-Day commemoration in Normandy, France. (Mark Gibson/U.S. Marine Corps) A 102-year-old World War II veteran died Friday while en route to France to take part in the remembrances planned for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, according to news reports and a veterans organization. Robert Persichitti died in a hospital in Germany during his travels toward Normandy where veterans and officials from the U.S. and other countries gathered this week to mark the anniversary of Operation Overlord — the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault on France’s northern beaches by some 160,000 Allied troops, including 73,000 Americans. The Rochester, N.Y., chapter of Honor Flight, with which Persichitti had been associated, confirmed his death in a social media statement.

Persichitti was a Navy veteran who served as radioman aboard the USS Eldorado — an amphibious force command ship — in the Pacific during World War II, according to his biography in the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2020. He served at Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Guam during the war.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-06-04/wwii-veteran-died-dday-normandy-france-14081884.html
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Re: 102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2024, 03:11:02 pm »
That’s what concerns me about these reunions.  Men over 99 probably shouldn’t be doing this.  Another problem is air travel leads to blood clots, more likely in elderly anyway much less if he had other factors.
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Re: 102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2024, 03:19:00 pm »
One of the men traveling to France this year is 107 years old. I hope he's okay.
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Re: 102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2024, 04:49:39 pm »
 :patriot: RIP, Sir.
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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2024, 09:05:22 pm »
Soon, there will be no World War II vets left. They truly were the greatest generation.
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Re: 102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2024, 09:08:39 pm »
Quote from: LMAO on June 05, 2024, 09:05:22 pm
Soon, there will be no World War II vets left. They truly were the greatest generation.
Then no Korean Vets. Then Nam vets, then no Dessert Storm.... 

It would be great if we lived in a country that would let our service members win a war like our Greatest generation vets were allowed.
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Re: 102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2024, 10:09:06 pm »
So sad... 8888crybaby
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