The End of an Era

On Sunday, February 27, 2011, the last World War I Veteran died at the age of 110.

History really moves on. A horrific event, the last of the gentleman wars, will never again have personal accounts. Without those who experienced the war, the war's true story will most likely be distorted. It's hard to think that one of the greatest events of the 20th century will never again be recalled from a personal account.

This war was the last war where enemies shared bread to celebrate a holiday. This was was the last war where a sense of a "civilized" war remained. From the end of WWI, two opposing sides were never able to swap stories and meet each other. From here on out, war became not between humans, but a total pitting of technology against each other.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/27/wwi.veteran.death/index.html?hpt=Sbin