The Last WWI Veteran Died this Week

... and the world took remarkably little notice.  Here's the story at the BBC.


I'm kind of stunned at the lack of mention Mrs. Green's passing has received.  Granted, she wasn't a combat veteran – the last one, Claude Choules, died almost a year ago.  Mrs. Green was an RAF mess steward, never left England in her duties, and joined up only two months before the Armistice.  But she swore the oath, wore the uniform, and was the very last.  With her death, World War One passes from living history into the dead past.