A loss that we, as a society, will begin to feel ever keener as time wears on. That generation, which includes all the countries that participated and not just the United States, is beginning to age out and when it does, we will all be the poorer. They never got the positive recognition that their fellows in other conflicts prior and since have gotten (but more than Korea), even though they endured the same relative hardships.
Godspeed to him and his fellows of that era.
