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Hundreds Answer Call to Honor British Veteran

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Hundreds of Britons took the message of Veterans Day to heart and attended the funeral of a World War II veteran they never knew. When Harold Jellicoe Percival died October 25 at a nursing home at age 99, the funeral home placed an advertisement in the local newspaper asking military personnel to attend the service, so that his passing would not go unmarked.The ad went viral on the Internet, and on Monday hundreds of soldiers, veterans and civilians gathered to pay respect to Percival, who...

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