WWI Veteran dies

Yes, World War One. Not two. One.

Alfred Anderson was 109 years old. He was, the AP reports, the last surviving soldier to have heard all the guns go quiet on the Western Front during the Christmas Truce of 1914.

The informal truce spread along much of the 500-mile Western Front, in some cases lasting for days -- alarming army commanders who feared fraternization would sap the troops' will to fight. The next year brought the start of vast battles of attrition that claimed 10 million lives, and the Christmas truce was never repeated.

"I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence," Anderson told The Observer newspaper last year.

Rest in peace, old soldier.