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Friday, December 27, 2024

Warren "Red" Upton, the last surviving veteran of the battleship USS Utah, which sank in Pearl Harbor during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack and remains there as a memorial, died Wednesday in San Jose, Calif. He was 105.

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The man was nearly killed fighting the sort of fascists we see in power today.

Celebrate him. MAGA won't.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-27 09:41 AM | Reply

His generation freed the world and his children's generation is doing everything they can to undo that work.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2024-12-27 10:53 AM | Reply

Upton, however, told The Mercury News that he had no plans to inter his cremated remains in the sunken hull of the Utah, an honor available to the crew members who survived the sinking. "I got off there once," he told the newspaper. "I'm not going back."

Interestingly, the last of the Japanese airmen who took part in the attack died this year: a bombadier who struck the ship on which Upton served (www.nytimes.com).

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-12-27 02:15 PM | Reply

@#2 ... His generation freed the world...

Yup.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-27 10:16 PM | Reply

That was one ancient sucker and loser.

~ Cadet Bone Spurs ~

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-28 09:57 AM | Reply

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