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[madwriter]

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After 113 remarkable years Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man, passes into history. And he wasn't just the world's oldest man. As the article points out, He was one of the last three surviving British veterans of the First World War, the last surviving founder member of the RAF, the last man to have witnessed the Battle of

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[rattrap]

So there are as many health care concerns in the top 100 as big oil, defense contractors and telcoms combined? Why does that not fill me with confidence?

It must be a stoned wallaby conspiracy.

[madwriter]

>>It must be a stoned wallaby conspiracy.<<

The health industry does certainly seem to excel at running circles around everyone.

[whingnut]

you are one of the top reasons I have the icon you see to your immediate left. :P

[madwriter]

I try to keep the wackshit coming. :D

[handworn]

The last veteran of the trenches, Harry Patch, just died, too.

[madwriter]

I saw that right after you posted this here. He was apparently also the last surviving WWI British vet too. Sigh.

(In case you didn't know this already, the last American combat vet of the Great War died in the Spring of 2007--March, if I remember right.)

[handworn]

Every one of 'em felt like a stranger in a strange land here in 2009, I bet.

Wikipedia claims that there's one British vet left, who served in the Navy in the first war and moved to Australia in 1926, where he still lives.

[madwriter]

That would explain why the article I read about Allingham said there were still two surviving vets.

>>Every one of 'em felt like a stranger in a strange land here in 2009, I bet.<<

This reminded me somewhat of the last time I had a similar thought: about great silent movie stars who faded out when talkies became commonplace by the 1930s, but were still alive in the 1980s and 90s. Of course, the chronological separation here is so much greater it's mind-boggling.