http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8108746.stm

- I met him last year, too. He shared a memory with me of the Battle of Jutland - the fucking battle of Jutland, for christsake! May as well have told me a story from Waterloo! Makes history seem so real and so close, eh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8186578.stm

- And there goes an era. Jump to 1:40 of the video, very emotional.

/salute to the Old Contemptibles.

RIP Harry.

Nice service indeed. BUt did anyone else keep thinking John Cleese at his desk with "And now for something completely different" or perhaps Graham Chapman or Michael Palin in the Town idiot skit would show and and say "IT'S" then only to have the Liberty Bell March start blaring?

Rest In Peace.



Now, for a fun little exercise, grab a beer or drink and sit down with a tablet and pencil, and start listing all the discoveries and advances in technology and medicine and science that this man experienced in his lifetime. What a remarkable man, to live 111 years without going bonkers readjusting and adapting to each new change in the world around him.

This got me thinking. By the time I'm ready to retire, there will likely be no living World War II veterans either...

This got me thinking. By the time I'm ready to retire, there will likely be no living World War II veterans either...

I'm sure I've said this on here before, a huge portion of my business over the past few years was video taping the WWII reunions as the entire WWII veteran population is aging and getting to be too old to travel to the reunions, let alone survive much longer.