a valid reason for the newspaper to mention he was a ww2 vet is because they are dying off very quickly now due to natural reasons, it's worse when something like this happens.
i think it was appropriate to include that fact in the story and the title of the story
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Approximately every two minutes a memory of World War II – its sights and sounds, its terrors and triumphs – disappears. Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their 80s and 90s. They are dying quickly – at the rate of just over 600 a day, according to recent US Veterans Administration figures.
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doing the basic math, all usa ww2 vets will be dead within ~5 years.
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