World 5/12/11

THURSDAY

British-born Claude Choules, 110, believed to be the last WWI combat veteran, died in his sleep in an Australian nursing home. Choules was born in 1901 and signed up with the British Navy for the Great War at just 15 years of age. The only other surviving WWI veteran is believed to be Britain’s Florence Green, also 110, who served with the Royal Air Force in a non-combat role.

Days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama met with New York firefighters and police and visited Ground Zero.

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