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We all have to go sometime
Great run and excellent crooner.
Great run and excellent crooner.
Tony Bennet won't be down for breakfast
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Great crooner/singer, a sad day for music...
RIP Anthony
(SF has gone to ****, time to leave)
RIP Anthony
(SF has gone to ****, time to leave)
Basket case
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and one of The Greatest Generation....
Benedetto was drafted into the United States Army in November 1944, during the final stages of World War II.[11][24] He did basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson as part of becoming an infantry rifleman.[25] Benedetto ran afoul of a sergeant from the South who disliked the Italian from New York City; heavy doses of KP duty or BAR cleaning resulted.[25] Processed through the huge Le Havre replacement depot, in January 1945, he was assigned as a replacement infantryman to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, a unit filling in for the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.[26] He moved across France and later into Germany.[11] As March 1945 began, he joined the front line of what he would later describe as a "front-row seat in hell".[26]
As the German Army was pushed back to its homeland, Benedetto and his company saw bitter fighting in cold winter conditions, often hunkering down in foxholes as German 88 mm guns fired on them.[27] At the end of March, they crossed the Rhine and entered Germany, engaging in dangerous house-to-house, town-after-town fighting to clean out German soldiers;[27] during the first week of April, they crossed the Kocher River, and by the end of the month reached the Danube.[28] During his time in combat, Benedetto narrowly escaped death several times.[11] The experience made him a pacifist;[11] he would later write, "Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn't gone through one,"[26] and later say, "It was a nightmare that's permanent. I just said, 'This is not life. This is not life.'"[29] At the war's conclusion he was involved in the liberation of the Kaufering concentration camp, a subcamp of Dachau, near Landsberg, where some American prisoners of war from the 63rd Division had also been held.[28] He later wrote in his autobiography that "I saw things no human being should ever have to see.
Recieved The Bronze Star
Benedetto was drafted into the United States Army in November 1944, during the final stages of World War II.[11][24] He did basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson as part of becoming an infantry rifleman.[25] Benedetto ran afoul of a sergeant from the South who disliked the Italian from New York City; heavy doses of KP duty or BAR cleaning resulted.[25] Processed through the huge Le Havre replacement depot, in January 1945, he was assigned as a replacement infantryman to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, a unit filling in for the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.[26] He moved across France and later into Germany.[11] As March 1945 began, he joined the front line of what he would later describe as a "front-row seat in hell".[26]
As the German Army was pushed back to its homeland, Benedetto and his company saw bitter fighting in cold winter conditions, often hunkering down in foxholes as German 88 mm guns fired on them.[27] At the end of March, they crossed the Rhine and entered Germany, engaging in dangerous house-to-house, town-after-town fighting to clean out German soldiers;[27] during the first week of April, they crossed the Kocher River, and by the end of the month reached the Danube.[28] During his time in combat, Benedetto narrowly escaped death several times.[11] The experience made him a pacifist;[11] he would later write, "Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn't gone through one,"[26] and later say, "It was a nightmare that's permanent. I just said, 'This is not life. This is not life.'"[29] At the war's conclusion he was involved in the liberation of the Kaufering concentration camp, a subcamp of Dachau, near Landsberg, where some American prisoners of war from the 63rd Division had also been held.[28] He later wrote in his autobiography that "I saw things no human being should ever have to see.
Recieved The Bronze Star
R.I.P...... A seriously long run and loved by people not even in his generation. At that age, he outlived all his old friends and buried them all. It's great to live a long life, but being the last man standing is kind of sad to me. Godspeed!!
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RIP to Mr Bennett.
96 is a ride, in my case it would be another 39 years, I'm not sure I'm looking for that.
96 is a ride, in my case it would be another 39 years, I'm not sure I'm looking for that.
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Class act ! Will be missed !
96 is quite a run, As horrible as WWII was & what he saw & experienced.... Living long enough to see what's happening in the world today, a world he & the men he served with fought so hard to defend I'm not so sure he died, I think he escaped....
RIP Mr Bennet
RIP Mr Bennet
"I know I'd go from rags to riches, if you would only saaay you caaare....."
RIP Mr. Bennett.
RIP Mr. Bennett.
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RIP Mr Bennett. Saw him in concert at Ravinia a few times many years ago. Great show.
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