700...Eleventh Province

When it is plus 35 it is hard to focus on the need for a warm [note to those living in Victoria: your city is not warm in the middle of winter it is just less cold] place for Canadians to park their butts and their money during the middle of yet another freeeeeeezing winter.

This morning's Globe and Mail is trying to sharpen that focus with a piece on the ongoing want and need of the Turks and Caicos Islands to find a home inside our native land.

The idea of annexing the small chain of islands, population of which is about the size of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan at 36,000, has been bandied about since the time of Sir Robert Borden, circa World War One.

Right now the Islands are going through a bit of a corruption scandal and are looking for a place to call home.

C A N A D A ?

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577...Wrong Again I Am Re Post 576

Anonymous, and please, if you would, sign in, whether your comment is positive or negative, points out that I, the fallible yet World Famous Dan Shields, erred in Post 575.

To wit:

There are still other surviving veterans of WWI, I saw a story on a Canadian one just the other day, read your source story again, it doesn't say he's the last surviving WWI veteran on earth, it even says: "Claude Choules, 108, who lives in Perth, Australia and served with the Royal Navy, now becomes the last surviving veteran of the 1914-18 conflict from the British side"

I truly thank you for pointing that out. If memory serves the Canadian fellow lives in Spokane, Washington.

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575...Then There Were None

The last surviving veteran of The Great War, World War I, Harry Patch, has exited planet earth at the age of 111. The Fletcher House Care Home, Wells, England, said he passed earlier today.

He started fighting in 1917 and was seriously wounded at Passchendaele.

Mr. Patch was on record as saying that he was honoured to be representing an entire generation.

He was also on record as saying that the war "...wasn't worth it."

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538...I Am Irish Catholic

Death is the Irish Catholic obsession.

Another hero has left our midst, BBC reports that Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age of 113. Mr Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service in WWI, later transferring to the Royal Air Force at the time of its creation.

Godspeed to him.

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336...We Have A New Oldest Man On Planet

With a refreshing attitude.

His name is Henry Allingham, he is 113 years old and as of yesterday he has officially been proclaimed the oldest man alive by Guinness World Records, after the death, also yesterday, of Tomoji Tanabe in Japan.

Mr. Allingham, who fought in the big one, World War One, attributes his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women ..." in a report by lined Maev Kennedy in the Guardian.co.uk.

His current hobby is sleeping. A lot.

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