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Default British WWI Veteran Dies at Age 109 - 11-21-2005, 10:54 AM
RIP. Thanks for your service!


http://www.comcast.net/news/internation ... 68447.html
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 11:12 AM
/salute

Man, the things he must've seen and the stories he could've told. Unreal.

http://www.fpsgameforums.com/forums/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=5399&dateline=1213387 247
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 11:48 AM
Holy shit 109 thats a nice ripe age, may he rest in peace.

Edit: We need a salute .gif FFS.
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 11:55 AM
last allied soldier involved in the christmas truce,

rest in peace thanks for your service.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4456234.stm
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/c ... struce.htm
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 12:10 PM
The picture on BBC website is crazy, the guy doesn't look a day over 70.
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 01:59 PM
wow he looked really good. my uncle who died a few years ago was i think 93 or 94 and he looked like 5 times worse then that.

/salute and RIP.
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 06:17 PM
RIP.
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 06:37 PM
RIP

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Default 11-21-2005, 06:52 PM
wow 109 ...
  
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Default 11-21-2005, 06:54 PM
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Default 11-21-2005, 10:10 PM
He's lived in 3 centuries....That's just nuts. R.I.P.
  
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Default 11-22-2005, 06:07 AM
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He's lived in 3 centuries....That's just nuts. R.I.P.
It must have been intresting to have fought in "The War to End All Wars" and then see an even larger global war break out not even 30 years later.
  
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