Det finns, tro't eller ej, fortfarande WWII-veteraner som är synnerligen aktiva i yrkes- och det offentliga livet. I går tillträdde 93-årige
Vito Perillo som borgmästare för Tinton Falls i New Jersey. Gubben, som under kriget tjänstgjorde i USA:s flotta, uppsökte inför valet alla väljare i deras hem.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...ew-jersey.html
http://people.com/politics/93-year-o...ey-mayor-race/
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So Perillo tells PEOPLE he wore out 1 ½ pairs of shoes walking to every home in the borough as he campaigned on promises of transparency and lower municipal taxes.
A first-time campaigner who never ran for any office before, Perillo knew he was a longshot against Mayor Gerald Turning, 63, Tinton Falls’ former police chief and borough administrator. But no matter.
“If anyone’s 93-year-old grandfather came to them and said, ‘I want to run for mayor,’ they would think he was a bit crazy,” says Perillo’s grandson, Michael Perillo-Gentile, 28. “But they don’t know my grandfather.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...yor/999781001/
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"This was a very historic election," said Gopal, moments before reciting the oath to Perillo. "Vito, for all of you know — World War II veteran, served his country, now has come back to serve his town. It's really an inspirational story."
Perillo är ändå inte den äldste borgmästaren i Staterna. I lilla Booneville i Kentucky (centralort i
Owsley County, USA:s fattigaste) har en annan krigsveteran,
Charles E. Long, varit borgmästare sedan 1959. Long, som fyllde 98 år i oktober, har aldrig haft några motkandidater i valen. Även han tjänstgjorde i U.S. Navy under kriget.
http://kentuckysportsradio.com/main/...in-booneville/
http://www.kentucky.com/news/politic...#storylink=cpy
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...ther-term.html
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During World War II, Long entered the Navy at age 23. He served aboard a landing craft in the South Pacific that, among other operations, swept a river for mines in the Philippines.
Den 4 januari dog 85-årige
Aharon Appelfeld, en av Israels främsta författare och därtill förintelseöverlevare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Appelfeld
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,...066321,00.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/aharon...st-dies-at-85/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...tertainment%29
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Appelfeld was a young boy when his mother was killed by the Nazis. He and his father were sent to a concentration camp in Transnistria in an area of Ukraine then under control of the German-allied Romanian forces. Aged 10 at the time, he escaped and spent three years hiding in forests in Ukraine.
“I survived in the fields and forests. Sometimes I worked as a shepherd or taking care of broken-down horses,” he told The New York Times in 1986. “I lived with marginal people during the war - prostitutes, horse thieves, witches, fortune tellers. They gave me my real education.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/a...feld-survivor/