There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms. 1  Muscle injury. 2  Bed rest. 3  Immobility. Nerve injury Neuropathy.  Diabetes - may cause neuropathy; also muscle loss from muscle breakdown due to hyperglycemia (the cause of 1  ketones). Rheumatoid arthritis.  Motor neurone 1  diseases. Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
World War 2 ended on August 1945, so it has been 67 years as of September 2012.
The last American World War I veteran, Frank Buckles, passed away in February of 2011. As of September 30th, 2011, there are roughly 2,889,000 WWII veterans alive in the USA according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Worldwide, there are about 5,250,000 still around as of late 2011. The global numbers of surviving WWII veterans tend to vary, since it is difficult to tabulate exact numbers globally.