WW2 veteran aged 102 dies on way to D-Day event

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlle8dljnno

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  2. >The 102-year-old was selected to attend the event in Normandy by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, which paid for and organised the trip, a local affiliate of CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, reported.

    >”I’m really excited to be going”, he told broadcaster WROC-TV a day before he set off.

    >His cardiologist had encouraged him to travel, he added.

    >Al DeCarlo, who served alongside Mr Persichitti in Japan, was also on the trip. He told local media in Rochester that his friend did not die alone.

    >”The doctor was with him… he was at peace and he was comfortable,” he said, according to ABC news agency affiliate, WHAM-TV.

    >”She put his favourite singer, Frank Sinatra, on her phone and he peacefully left us.”

  5. imagine fighting in the biggest war in human history, and die attending a commemoration 80 years after. a truly heroic life he had. rip.

  7. He was at Iwo Jima. He saw some real, real shit. RIP.

  8. Sad, but glad he died peacefully and doing something and going somewhere that meant something to him.

  13. Imagine surviving D-Day, living past the age of 100 and they you die on the way to mark the occasion of a day you’d almost certainly spent your life wishing had never happened.

  14. He died in Germany, but not the way someone might have thought 80 years ago! So glad the peace people like him fought for still exists in Europe and former enemies can be friends, even though it’s under attack from both the outside and the inside.

  15. rip my man. there arent many left, but these guys were keeping the memory alive

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