This has also been the deadliest month...

...for British World War I veterans in a long time. Harry Patch (which is also how you could describe what's left on the top of my head) died Saturday at the age of 111. The only other living Briton from the war, Henry Allingham, died last week at 113. Patch survived the Battle of Passchendaele in May, 1917, in which nearly half a million Allied soldiers were killed. I wonder if as an 18-year-old suddenly thrust into such a bloody battle, Patch ever thought to himself, "Not only will I get out of this alive, but I bet I'll live another 92 years!"