Good for you for striking up a conversation. How many people would have just sat there absorbed in their smart phone. That generation is passing us by and so many experiences, so many stories, so much 'living' history is lost with each death.
My wife's late grandmother lived through the 'Blitz' in London as a teenager. Oh, the stories she would tell! Now I kick myself for never getting around to video taping her telling them.
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...I fought in many guises, many names, but always me. Patton
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