Living World War I veterans

[Kirk Goolsby]

Dear All,

I am still working towards finding and interviewing veterans of WWI for a documentary. I spent much of summer in France and Belgium doing that and even went to France for Armistice Day. I was able to meet 17 Canadian veterans there.

Please keep a lookout for men over 98 in local papers, in the press, or on TV. Most were likely veterans. Some women were as well. (For instance Good Morning America lists 100th birthdays every morning. I am not awake at that time due to work and school.) I would love to hear from anyone with such leads. Also please pass the word on to as many people as you can. You could even pass them a copy of this letter.

Thanks again to all. your help is and has been much appreciated.

Kirk Goolsby
6772 Foster's Fork Road #1
Warrenton, Virginia 20187
USA

(540)341-7878
kgoolsby@gmu.edu
kmgoolsby@aol.com

[Barrett]

Not directly related to veterans, but this is too good a story to withold.
Though I had some contact with EVR in the 1960s, my favorite affiliation with him is via a close relative (10th cousin twice removed) who got his right arm shot off in an A-4 over North Vietnam in 1966. My cousin's mother, whom I never knew, worked in Paris during part of The Great War ("It was in all the papers" her son insists.) Quite a lady--the Red Cross had nowhere else to lodge her so she roomed in a bordello but was always careful to wear a hat when she left, as reportedly the working girls usually went bare headed. Anyway, her most memorable patient in the US hospital was Cap'n Eddie, who was recovering from his mastoid operation and was eager to return to the 94th. So much so that he pretty much made a nuisance of himself. "He was the most obnoxious man I ever met," she confided.
Wynn, my cousin, being of the attack persuasion, understood perfectly: "Hey, he was a fighter pilot!"