Let's Thanks the World War II veterans now, while we still can

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Non-Fiction

Let's Thank the World War II veterans now, while we still can

Non-Fiction by Jean Paul Lacroix

          You see them every day, crossing the street, at the shopping center, or on the way to church. Some you'll find in nursing homes. They are slower now. They are not getting any younger and there are fewer every day - America's World War II generation.
          Winston Churchill said of them "The New World came to the rescue of the Old." These senior citizens, mostly retirees now, saved the world because it had to be done and no one else was available to do it. They participated in the world's most violent and deadly struggle. They did what had to be done.
          During the war years, from Pearl Harbor through VE and VJ Day, they were young men and women. They were brave. They answered the call. They were the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marines. Some were home front workers - Rosie the Riveter, Willie the Welder. They went where they were sent. They were bombed, shelled, shot out of the sky, torpedoed at sea, shot in the sands of North Africa. They endured the extreme cold of the North Atlantic and the steamy heat in the jungles of the South Pacific. Some were wounded. They lost new and old friends. They lost loved ones.
          They were all heroes in some way and they will deny it.
          When they came home, they went back to being ordinary people. You know these men and women. They are moms and dads, relatives, neighbors and friends. Let's take a look and say thanks to these people now, while we still have a chance.