WWI veterans
Armistice Day honorees
Veterans of World War I, the global conflict fought from 1914 to 1918.
The phrase appears most often in historical contexts discussing postwar benefits, memorial events, or the dwindling population of survivors: The last WWI veterans died in the early 2010s.
Also written as World War I veterans or First World War veterans.
- shell shockWar-induced psychological trauma
- infantryGround combat troops
- pensionsOngoing payments after employment
- war memorialsStructures honoring fallen soldiers
- poppiesFlowering plants, often red
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- War Veteranswounded soldiers, war wounded, old soldiers, ex-servicemen, doughboys
- military officerscolonel, general, officers, major, admirals
WWI veteransWWII veterans
Soldiers from the forties
Vietnam veterans · Korean War veterans · Gulf War veterans · Afghanistan veterans
WWI veteransdraft dodgers
Those avoiding military conscription
conscientious objectors · war resisters · civilians · pacifists · non-combatants
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