Tributes are paid for World War on Two Veteran and Social Media Star Jake Larson, online ‘Pope Jake’, who died at the age of 102.
Larson is one of the allied troops of D-Day attacking Nazi Germany forces on the shores of northern France in 1944, which helped end WW2.
In the later life he accepted social media and got 1.2 million followers, where he shares stories to celebrate WW2 and his fallen companions.
Three weeks ago he was associated with an Emmy-Iran Award Christiane Amanpour for their interaction with the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
His grandson McKaela Larson said he died on July 17, but “it was peaceful and surprised at the ends”.
“I am very grateful to share everything with my dad. You mean the world to him,” he told followers to his story at the Pope Jake Telt account.
“As Dad said, I love you all Mscinet,” McKaela Larson added.
He asked his family to be given the privacy but said he would “continue to share the stories of Dad Jake and keep his memory alive”.
“I didn’t know what the bull till my grandson sent it a day,” says Jake Larson when asked about the app.
He also served in the US Army in BW2 war.
Before the attack of the alley of the French invasion, when he was 19, he was placed in Lurgan, in Northern Ireland.
Larson many times have visited Normandy many times for D-Day celebration in recent years.
