What’s It Like to Be 110?

Unless you were paying close attention, you might have missed this recent story: “LONDON (AP) – Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets” reads a recent story in USA Today (click here to see the original story).  “But Green, who has died aged 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women’s Royal Air Force as a waitress at an air base in eastern England when the guns fell silent on Nov. 11, 1918″ Wow.  The last surviving veteran of World War 1.  Think about that for a minute.  The Great War, the war to end all wars. Think what it must have been like to have lived 110 years, to have been born right before the Wright Brothers made their...