100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn't the ‘country we fought for’: ‘I am so upset’

Carl Spurlin Dekel, who celebrated his 100th birthday last week, said that a lot of what American soldiers fought for has gone down the drain.

The most important thing Dekel did was serve his country in WWII. The veteran and Silver Star holder regrets that the U.S. has lost sight of what he remembers.

Dekel said that people don't realize what they have. The things we did and the things we fought for have gone down the drain.

He says that they haven't had the country they had when he was a child. Everyone will not have fun with me. Nobody will be able to take advantage of it. It isn't what our boys died for and that's not what it is.

Combat veteran and his wife help other people with post-traumatic stress.

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On the same day that the U.S. lost a Medal of Honor recipient, Dekel made a statement. Hershel "Woody" Williams passed away surrounded by his family at the age of 98.

During the battle of Iwo Jima, former President Harry Truman gave Williams a medal for bravery.

Williams was honored by America's 63 living medal of honor recipients.

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society stated that the friends and family of Woody Williams knew him as a West Virginia farmer's son and the youngest of 11 children who supported his family after his father died. The man who volunteered for a mission on Iwo Jima to clear a lane through enemy pillboxes was a Marine.

He worked as a veterans service representative in West Virginia. The Woody Williams Foundation was used by the Gold Star families to raise money for scholarships. His fellow medal of honor recipients knew him as a hero. He will be missed a lot.

Williams said in an interview that he hoped to see a resurgence of patriotism in the U.S.

"I've been at this many times, but I think today we had more honor wreath than we've ever had before, and that's encouraging," Williams said. It gives me hope that we will return to being the United States of America that we were before.