Youth group members and others from Jewish Family Services helped veteran Jerry Cohen plant flags on vets' graves at the Jewish cemetery, south of York, before Memorial Day this week. The passing of time has left Cohen as the lone member of the local Jewish war veterans post. Background posts: 'Chaplains: The Calm in the Chaos', People of varying religious groups founded York County and Holocaust sculpture a York County must-see.
An AP report before Memorial Day reminded the world that World War II vets are dying at a rate of more than 1,000 a day.
About 2.5 million WW II vets are alive today, down from 16 million at war's end, the Department of Veterans Affairs estimates.
"I think that's low now," said Martin Morgan, historian for the World War II Museum in New Orleans of the number of vets dying each day. "But judging by the passing of the World War I veterans, we're predicting they will all be gone by 2020."
In York County, just one example of the passing of the Greatest Generation comes from the local post of Jewish WWII vets ... .
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