Henry Allingham

[00dave]

Sad day really BBC NEWS | UK | Oldest WW1 veteran dies aged 113 only two survivors left now, Harry Patch and Claude Choules.

 

[Embattle]

Amazing person.

 

[Shagrat]

born in 1897 jesus.

Think of all the things he's lived through, it's like me living to the year 2084.

god speed fella.

 

[00dave]

"All those moments lost in time like tears in rain"

May have been from a sci fi movie but it makes you think doesn't it.

 

[Shagrat]

We need to archive the memories of everyone just before they die....

get the scientists working on the technology immediately, I want it ready by teatime on Thursday just in case.

 

[00dave]

They say that was one of the many projects Mr Tesla was working on during his career.

 

[Zenith.UK]

We need to archive the memories of everyone just before they die....

get the scientists working on the technology immediately, I want it ready by teatime on Thursday just in case.

Petabyte tablets and braincaps? Been reading Arthur C. Clark's 3001 lately?

 

[Shagrat]

Petabyte tablets and braincaps? Been reading Arthur C. Clark's 3001 lately?

that and Peter Hamilton

periodoc downloads to crystal, and restore to a newly grown body if you should have an accident, if you can afford it anyway.....

 

[Gray]

BBC NEWS | UK | WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111

Harry Patch recently died today it seems

 

[Embattle]

Shame.

 

[TdC]

111. awesome. every year I watch the war memorials and never fail to tear up when I see the brave old men, often in the cold and rain, present to remember their comrades. Every year there are fewer and fewer. Soon there will be none. How long will they continue to be remembered when there are none left?

 

[00dave]

Yet another sad day then, hope they both rest in peace, I think they've earned it.
IF you watch the news now it shows Harry talking about his friend who was killed by shrapnel, the emotion in his voice made me shed a tear.

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

YouTube - Roger Waters-The Ballad of Bill Hubbard


good reading about it http://www.rogerwaters.org/bh.html