From the November 10, 2020, Pennsylvania Real-Time News "101-year-old World War II veteran embarks on Veterans Day motorcade tour" by Dan Gleiter.
On Tuesday, Harrisburg, Pa., provided a warm send-off for Sidney Walton where he received the Key to the City from the mayor. Harrisburg police then escorted him in the first stage of his tour to Washington, D.C..
Mr. Walton is one of the last remaining World War II veterans and says he has always been sorry he did not get a chance to meet any pf the last surviving Civil War veterans before they too passed into history. So, he launched his tour in 2018 with intentions to visit all fifty states and meet with all fifty governors in his "No Regrets Tour."
He has already been to 35 states.
In 1941, he quit college in New York City at age 21 to join the U.S. Army and "fight Hitler." That was nine months before Pearl Harbor. During the war, he was with the 34th Infantry, 8th Division and fought in China, Burma, India Theater.
Out of 16 million WW II veterans, most recent estimates have only 325,000 still alive with around 300 dying every day. It is expected that all will be gone in the next 15 years.
Pennsylvania has around 18,000 still alive.
--GreGen
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