Blog Post 13

This weekend I was sitting out on my deck and read an article titled Last British survivor of WWI trenches is made an officer of the French Legion of Honor by RAPHAEL G. SATTER from the Star Tribune.  It is a story about how a man named Harry Patch was awarded a medal of honor from the French Ambassador Maurice Gourdalut-Montagne from his duties in World War I.  Harry Patch is 110 years old and lives in a nursing home in Wells, England. He served as a machine-gunner in the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele, and though it was many years ago he was one that the Ambassador thought deserved a medal of honor for all he did.  Also he didn't begin to talk about his war experiences until the 21st-century so no one even knew anymore about what he had done because all of his colleagues from the war have perished in the past century.  This relates to my life because we are learning about WWI in AP world history right now and I felt this was a very interesting article.  Also because WWI seems like so long ago but really there are people still alive from then!