World War I and me

I am discovering that, though I was born in the 1950s, I have some historical connections to the first world war.

Both grandparents on my mother's side were born during World War I. My grandfather, H. K. Huffman, was born in 1914; and my grandmother was born three years later, in 1917. Strange how I never thought about that before I began preparatory reading for an upcoming class on the Great War.

Another interesting thought is that my paternal grandfather, Eugene Howard, who was born in 1900, may have actually fought in the final year of the war, or at least might have been called to duty, for he was certainly old enough since the war did not end until late in 1918.