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The US Government still pays a civil war pension to the daughter of a Union soldier. The last surviving American veteran of WWI died in 2011. Whenever I hear
by curun1r 8y ago
The US Government still pays a civil war pension to the daughter of a Union soldier.
The last surviving American veteran of WWI died in 2011.
Whenever I hear stuff like that, I always have the same reaction you did that we're more connected to these historical events than we think we are.
- blackbagboys 8y agoPresident John Tyler (born 1790, President 1841-1845) has two living grandchildren.
- wutbrodo 8y agoI remember feeling this acutely when I say a clip from a TV show in the 50s that had as a guest a man who was present for Lincoln's assassination (as a young child). Pretty wild to think that we're only a few short hops from something that's practically modern mythology at this pt.