As of May 2016, US Air Force Colonel Gail Halvorsen is still alive.
Known as Rosinenbomber (Candy Bomber), one of the things he was known for was dropping improvised parachutes full of candy out for the children in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade. He used his own candy from rations, and got donations from his friends. The children would often send the parachutes back with pictures and notes attached.
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Lt Gail Halvorsen is very much alive and is still actively giving of his experiences, teaching, encouraging and entertaining children. At 91 years of age, he flew over Roswell, Ga and reinacted his famous candy drop for the students of Mountain Park Elementary School. April 19, 2012. The day before, he spoke to the 4th and 5th graders of MPES. A "Living American Hero".
No, just remnants from it.
Joseph Baker, Gail Borden, and Thomas H. Borden (see Marilyn McAdams Sibley, Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983.)
he did not die he vanished and now knew where he went but he is oversly dead
Laura Secord died because of how old she was, she was 93
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