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WORLD WAR I Ended @11AM 0n 11/11/1918-"Millions of men came to fight in this war and I find it incredible that I am the only one left." HARRY PATCH

  " Millions of men came to fight in this war and I find it incredible that I am the only one left." HARRY PATCH Harry Patch was the last living veteran of World War I. My astrophysicist friends tell me that the most amazing thing about living in this universe is TIME. According to them, physics state that this Blogger should be able to get up out of this room and travel back to 1731, without taxing himself. But it does not work like that; even if a Time Machine is eventually fabricated, it will only go one way, time travel into the future. Mankind will not be able to go back in time because time  goes only in one direction-it is an arrow. Which means every living witness to this moment in time, regardless of how young or how fit will eventually die; which means there will eventually be no living witness to any event. Harry Patch  was a plumber, an inarticulate plumber, yet by design or chance or fate he outlived them all, and eighty years after the end of the war  he was for