We recently learned that a decorated World War II veteran we wrote about last summer has since died. He was a true hero, and we want to remember him for his incredible final TV interview reminding us that America is worth fighting for.
Retired Marine Carl Spurlin Dekle of Plant City, Florida, died Aug. 9, 2022, two months after his 100th birthday.
The poignant and haunting interview he did in July with WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida, should serve as a wake-up call for why we must reverse the troubling deterioration of the nation for which Dekle and so many other veterans valiantly fought and died.
The recipient of the Silver Star Medal for Gallantry in Action said looking back, he was grateful because “I’ve lived a good life, meaning I’ve had a lot of happiness.”
The devout Christian, who was predeceased by his first wife of 50 years and their only child, according to his obituary, remained an unwavering optimist until his death.
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“I sincerely believe in this whole world [that] everything is beautiful,” Dekle told WTVT last summer.
“If I wake up in the morning and see these plants out here in nature, and all those flowers that are in there and the green grass on the ground, that’s beautiful,” he said.
However, the war hero lamented that people often take the simple things in life for granted. “People don’t realize what they have,” Dekle said.
One of the things that distressed him in his final days was that the United States was imploding — so much so that it made him question whether the sacrifices he and other World War II veterans made had been worth it.
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“Nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all going down the drain,” he said. “Our country’s going to hell in a…
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