St. Augustine VFW mourns loss of last World War II veteran Ray Klett
Enlisting in the Navy Seabees when he was 17, he saw action on islands across the Pacific fighting the Japanese. "He didn't talk about it too much, and we veterans say if you keep talking about it over and over and over, you're lying, but if you tell the full story one time and that is the truth," said his son-in-law Ret. U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Galen Wilson. "Ray told me one time, and he didn't go into detail. He was a hero." Klett moved to St. Augustine in the 1980s after retiring from AT&T as an engineer; he continued working in maintenance jobs in the area until he was 93, said ...
Source: staugustine.com