The overwhelming majority of ww2 vets are dead. Combat vets are likelier than non-combat vets to die younger. And even if they weren't, combat vets are overwhelmingly right wing.
Its 2025 (current year). The literal youngest possible WW2 vet alive is nearly 90 years old, a hard age to reach even under the best circumstances of life.
The amount left is so dwindlingly small that you can't reliable assume any deviations from the mean because the sample size is just that puny.
Its hard to remember, with how much the media and institutions talk about it like it was just yesterday and we are "still healing" but we are only a scant few years from it starting a century ago. Heck we aren't even that far from the end being nearly a century ago.
Its why we keep seeing stories crop up about faked WW2 vets and Holocaust survivors, because its literally a demographic about to approach extinction but the Powers That Be don't want to lose the hyped up social pressure they've taught people to give that title.
That is literally stolen valor if true. May even be prosecutable, looks like pretending to have a service record for gain is criminal in the UK.
supposedly there's another guy with the same name who did buildings and such, but it is, at best, a lie by implication...
They don't even have to do this. I'm sure there's a WW2 vet out there that is a lefty. There's got to be one.
The overwhelming majority of ww2 vets are dead. Combat vets are likelier than non-combat vets to die younger. And even if they weren't, combat vets are overwhelmingly right wing.
True.
Its 2025 (current year). The literal youngest possible WW2 vet alive is nearly 90 years old, a hard age to reach even under the best circumstances of life.
The amount left is so dwindlingly small that you can't reliable assume any deviations from the mean because the sample size is just that puny.
Fair point.
Its hard to remember, with how much the media and institutions talk about it like it was just yesterday and we are "still healing" but we are only a scant few years from it starting a century ago. Heck we aren't even that far from the end being nearly a century ago.
Its why we keep seeing stories crop up about faked WW2 vets and Holocaust survivors, because its literally a demographic about to approach extinction but the Powers That Be don't want to lose the hyped up social pressure they've taught people to give that title.