The last man..........

[Dan Shapiro]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/...in_old_veteran

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[Emri]

Thanks, Dan,

For that link. I just finished a book about that part of WWI.

If that history interests you, then read "A Storm in Flanders" by Winston Groom. He is a good writer of many things, ( Forrest Gump) but this book is not about all of WWI: only about the battle for the Ypres salient from 1914-1918.

The battle mentioned in your posting (Passchendaele) is well mentioned in the book. While the particular participant was not mentioned by name, there is a passage mentioning a great defense/offense in which machine-guns played a major part.

Thanks, again,

Emri

P.S.- I also liked his book "1942" , but maybe because I can relate to the area he grew up in.