Henry Allingham dies

[LEGION]

Damn I'd not heard of him. I'm sure my dad has though as he is an airplane buff and 86 years old. Jeez Henry was early 20's already when my dad was born crazy shat'!!! RIP old dude. I bet he was a fun guy to sit around and listen to.

[OumaFan]

That's crazy, never heard of him before or if I have its slipped my mind.

I actually thought about this a few weeks ago, about which periods would really be crazy to live through. Say you lived to be a 100, you were born in the US in 1850 and died in 1950. You would have seen the end of slavery ,the civil war, the further growth of the country, industrialization, etc., the invention of the telephone, electric light bulb, the car, tv, etc., etc. The world would have changed completely, electricity, cars, suburban life, etc. You would have seen the civil war, Spanish-American War, World War 1, rise of Hitler and World War 2.

And that's leaving out a lot. You would have seen the complete transformation of a country, the world really. Kind of an amazing.