Last Man Standing

I guess this kind of thing is inevitable with the passage of time but I saw that on Monday of this week, one of the two remaining World War I veterans in the United States passed away at 107 years of age. That leaves just one surviving veteran of 'The Great War' - 107 year old Frank Buckles of Charles Town, WV. Worldwide, there are only 14 known veterans still alive - all of them 106 years old or older.

The last time something like this happened was in 1992 when Nathan Cook, the last surviving veteran of the Spanish American war, passed away at 106.