AP - Thu Nov 10, 1:24 PM ET
Lloyd Brown, a 104-year-old World War I veteran takes a moment to
pause as he remembers being in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard with
his ship the day WW I ended, at his home in Charlotte Hall, Md.,
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. Brown remembers Armistice Day in 1918 as
few, ever so few, veterans can. 'For the servicemen there were lots
of hugs and kisses,' he recalls Brown, a teenage seaman aboard the
battleship USS New Hampshire when the fighting stopped. 'We were so
happy that the war was over.' Now 104, Brown adds, 'There's not too
many of us around any more.' No one knows exactly how many of
America's World War I veterans will celebrate Veterans Day, which
marks the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, that ended what then was
considered the Great War. An estimated 2 million Americans served
in Europe after the U.S. entered the war in 1917. Today, just eight
veterans as receiving disability benefits or pension compensation
from service in World War I. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)
