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Recording The Living History Of WWI Veterans Independent radio producer Will Everett crisscrossed the country to interview as many of the survivors of the Great War as he could find. The veterans share their stories, about about their battlefield experiences, the horrors of the trenches and what the war taught them.
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Recording The Living History Of WWI Veterans

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Recording The Living History Of WWI Veterans

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Recording The Living History Of WWI Veterans

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Tony Pierro of Swampscott, Mass., is the last living U.S. veteran to have seen action at the bloody Meuse and Argonne offensives. He is 110 now. (Enlarge to see the full version of Pierro's 1918 enlistment photo.) Richard Pierro/Will Everett hide caption

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Tony Pierro of Swampscott, Mass. (pictured here in his 1918 enlistment photo), is the last living U.S. veteran to have seen action at the bloody Meuse and Argonne offensives. He is 110 now.

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