B105 TODAYS BEST COUNTRY » Veteran http://kkcb.com Fri, 24 May 2013 21:52:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 One-Armed War Vet Wows Crowd by Catching Foul Ball [VIDEO] http://kkcb.com/one-armed-war-vet-wows-crowd-by-catching-foul-ball-video/ http://kkcb.com/one-armed-war-vet-wows-crowd-by-catching-foul-ball-video/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:25:42 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=20290 “I thought I was going to catch the ball or go over the railing,” said Michael Kacer of the foul ball he caught at Yankee Stadium Friday.

The 29-year old vet had lost his left arm in Afghanistan, so he had nothing to brace himself with when he used his baseball cap as a glove and reached over the railing to snag a ball off of the bat of Curtis Granderson.

]]> http://kkcb.com/one-armed-war-vet-wows-crowd-by-catching-foul-ball-video/feed/ 0 Mlb.com Claude Choules, The Last Combat Veteran Of World War I, Has Died In Australia At Age 110 http://kkcb.com/claude-choules-the-last-combat-veteran-of-world-war-i-has-died-in-australia-at-age-110/ http://kkcb.com/claude-choules-the-last-combat-veteran-of-world-war-i-has-died-in-australia-at-age-110/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 04:13:16 +0000 David Drew http://kkcb.com/?p=5648 We've spent a lot of time this week making sure our soldiers know we appreciate all they do.  Of course where we are today is in large part to the aging veterans of past wars.  What a life this last WWI vet must have lived.
Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died Thursday at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth, his family said. He was 110.

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