What's Your Favorite EMS Story To Tell?

Another one of my favorite calls was having the pleasure of taking care of one of the the last living (and fully functional, by the way) WWI veteran in Illinois. 104 years old and living alone, sharp as a tack and healthier than most people a fifth his age. Very awesome guy to sit and talk to.
 
usafmedic45 said:
Another one of my favorite calls was having the pleasure of taking care of one of the the last living (and fully functional, by the way) WWI veteran in Illinois. 104 years old and living alone, sharp as a tack and healthier than most people a fifth his age. Very awesome guy to sit and talk to.
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Wow, imagine all the things he's seen over the years!
 
WWI Veteran in Il

There was some time that I stepped out of a restaurant in Libertyville IL and saw a car parked in a handicap space that had a license plate that said WWI veteran. I was shocked, I had never seen a WWI veteran license plate. This would have been in 2009-2010. I waited for this man to come to his car so that I could thank him for his service. He did, and I shook his hand, and I'm sure that he had told me he was a Marine, as I was from 2001-2006. I hadn't thought about that day for a while, but I had read that the last American WWI veteran had died and it made me remember the man I had met. Your thread maybe the only record that I had met him. I remember that 1 thing he said was that he didn't like the way the country was headed. I wonder if this could have been the same man in your thread.
 
Well, actually I have a few and a half.

I've related most of them here, but with over 4,000 posts it will take you some time to read them.:P

The last time my son went trick or treating (age 14) was a full moon with broken clouds and fog patches, so I went with. As we walked along I told him ALL my stories for the first and last time. That sort of changed his mind about the old man.
 
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