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Dressed from head to toe in U.S. Army green, Justus “Jay ” Belfield celebrated his final Veterans Day in style.

The 98-year-old World War II vet died early Wednesday morning – just hours after the national holiday concluded — Baptist Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in New York confirmed to the Daily Gazette of Schenectady.

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Maddie Nistl, 9, walks with her father, Dee Nistl, an Air Force veteran, past flag-covered graves placed for Veterans Day in the veterans’ section of Evergreen-Washelli cemetery,

Maddie has come to the cemetery every Veterans Day and Memorial Day since she was three years old to place roses on the graves of veterans. 

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A New Mexico veteran who served with the Marines in Vietnam said a final goodbye last week to the beloved dog he had to put up for adoption when he entered hospice care.

Animal Welfare posted photos of the reunion on its Facebook page with a post that reported Vincent and Patch were so happy to see each and to say their goodbyes.

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The United States’ oldest living veteran, Lawrence Brooks, died who reached the incredible age of 112, the World War 2 veteran died in December 2021.

The National WWII Museum announced:  “will forever cherish the memories we shared with Lawrence Brooks,” its president Stephen Watson said in a statement.

“He was a beloved friend, a man of great faith and had a gentle spirit that inspired those around him.”

Brooks was the oldest of the approximately 240,000 US veterans who fought in World War 2.

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U.S. World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose (1896–1988) attends the dedication parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

Wearing his original Brodie helmet and doughboy uniform and holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.U.S.

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A veteran kisses his service dog during Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario

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U.S. Marine combat veteran Jack Frey of Millersville, Pennsylvania pays his respects at the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veteran’s Day, by kneeling to his fallen comrades.

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Alison Malachowski, facing camera, mother of Marines Staff Sgt. James M. Malachowski, is consoled by Susanne Muller in front of Sgt. Malachowski’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington.

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Houston James, a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the Marine is Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr., a member of an ordnance-disposal team.

Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr., lost his left eye, his left hand, the thumb and index finger of his right hand, and his right leg as a result of injuries sustained while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July 2003.

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The last surviving member of Easy Company portrayed in the book and Steven Spielberg’s HBO miniseries ‘Band of Brothers’ died on July 3.

Bradford Freeman of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, which fought on D-Day, in the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps in Nazi Germany, passed away at the age of 97.

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