Old Tybee Ranger

OTR's observations on American culture and experience. And much like that experience you never know what to expect from its participant/observers.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Harry Patch: The Last Fighting Tommy

Harry Patch died in late July. He was the last Briton to fight in the trenches of the Great War. Times Online has a "must see" photo essay on his last years and military funeral.

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Old Tybee Ranger: Atlanta, Georgia, United States; I was born in Maryland and spent my first thirty years living there, first in the Appalachian Mountains, then on the Eastern Shore, and later in suburban Washington. After a year in South Carolina, I moved to Georgia in 1977. I soon met another park ranger who worked in Florida. She was a wonderful woman who became my best friend. then my wife, and soon the mother of our three children. I spent over eleven years working in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, and on the moss-draped sea islands nearby before moving to Atlanta.. In 2007, I retired from the National Park Service and a career dedicated to preserving and interpreting resources and themes in the cultural and natural history of the United States. It was a most rewarding experience. Today, I enjoy living in the rolling hills and woods of the Appalachian Piedmont east of Atlanta.

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