Farewell to a True Vintage Gent. Oldest Living WWI Veteren Dies
J. Russell Coffey has passed away at the age of 109. He was one of the last three remaining WWI veterans alive in the United States. According to an Associated Press report: Other known surviving American soldiers are Frank Buckles, 106, in West Virginia, and Harry Landis, in Florida, according to the Veterans Affairs Department. According to an AP report, John Babcock, 107, of Spokane, Wash., served in the Canadian army and is the last known Canadian veteran of the war.
According to a an April 12 St. Pete Times Article about Landis: Coffey, the oldest known survivor, enlisted weeks before the war ended and never got out of training. A retired college teacher from Bowling Green State University, he gave up driving at 103. He now lives in a nursing home, where aides sometimes hold his hand so he can sign his name for autographs.
Even though some may point out that Mr. Coffey never was sent overseas, it is the spirit of his willingness to serve that should be honored equally to his two fellow soldiers that he preceeds in death.
If you see a a vet today in your rush to purchase last minute gifts or to pack to go on a journey, please don’t rush by them. Thank them for serving in the spirit. Mr. Coffey would have approved.
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Tired of being a Metrosexual and looking for a new persona? Or is every cell in your being diametrically opposite and you just couldn’t jump on that bandwagon? I have always been told that if I refuse to fall in with the latest trends, that somehow if I just waited long enough the fashion pendulum would swing back and I would suddenly and effortlessly be at the height of fashion.
Just like the “grunge” trend made people that naturally wore torn jeans or look like they didn’t shower suddenly hip, a new day of accidentally fashionable may have dawned.
According to the Urban Dictionary, a Hobosexual is:
Adjective. The opposite of metrosexual; one who cares little for one’s own appearance.
Examples: Michael Moore, Peter Jackson.
First documented hobosexual - John the Baptist.
Harriet ( TastyVintage) alerted the vintage community to this interview with Charlie Waller, Singer/Guitarist of the Rumble Stips, who happens to personify this on the VFG Public Forum. Waller states on being in a band on tour: If you are on the road, what do you pack? I don’t pack anything. I just walk out the door. Sometimes I take some underpants in my jacket pocket, but usually I just don’t bother to pack.
Will this catch on? Who knows. But I guarantee if it does, like the grunge movement did, hangers-on will get the rumpled, unshowered look by purchasing a product or spray to create it.
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