James ‘Jimmy’ McConnell, a former Royal Marine, died with no surviving family members. The staff at the nursing home in Southsea, Portsmouth, England, where he lived knew little about McConnell and were conce...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/22/Hundreds-Turn-Out-for-Marines-Funeral/(YouTube Link) It has to be a great feeling to see your father return home from military duty overseas, but when he comes home dressed as Captain America it elevates him to superhero status. That is, if you're a litt...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/23/super-dad-returns-home-from-afghanistan-dressed-as-captain-america/
In the past year, we brought you the obituaries of... ...ou the obituaries of Frank Buckles, the last U.S. veteran of World War I and Claude Choules, the last survi... ...r I and Claude Choules, the last surviving combat veteran of that war. Yesterday, the very last member of t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/07/rip-florence-green-the-very-last-world-war-i-veteran/
Joe Johnson has lived at the Morningside retirement center in Greenwood, South Carolina, for about ten years now. He's been a regular blood donor for most of his life, and sees no reason to stop now. Johnson said in the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/27/96-year-old-veteran-still-donates-blood/
You've heard the saying, "Freedom isn't free"? Apparently neither is a Purple Heart. Retired Sergeant Major Rob Dickerson was wounded by a rocket blast in Iraq in 2007. It took years of paperwork for the army to decide t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/05/purple-heart-arrives-c-o-d/
Claude Stanley Choules died today at a nursing hom... ...the age of 110. Choules was the last known combat veteran of World War I. World War I was raging when Chou... ...e First World War, a U.S.-based group that tracks veterans . Choules' autobiography is entitled The Last of...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/r-i-p-claude-choules/
Frank W. Buckles celebrated his 110th birthday on... ...I. With his death, there are no more surviving US veterans of that war. Buckles, who served as a U.S. Army... ...dertaken a project to document the last surviving veterans of that war. As the years continued, all but B...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/28/rip-frank-buckles/(Video Link) Jackie Roy Tuner, a US veteran of the invasion of Normandy, plays the trumpet....
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/05/wwii-vet-talks-about-the-power-of-music/
Twenty-seven-year-old Johno Lee, a British veteran of the war in Afghanistan, applied for and was de...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/28/amputee-may-get-better/
When Alistair Hodgson was 21, he was a British paratrooper stationed in Northern Ireland. A booby trap exploded and tore him apart. His horrific injuries healed, except for the leg that was blown off and the other leg wh...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/amputee-skydiver/
