How are people who grew up smoking cigarettes and eating fat and entirely devoid of Pilates living this long?

Born in 1901, the last U.S. veteran of WWI has passed away:

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Frank Buckles enlisted for World War I at 16 after lying about his age. He made it home again and ultimately became that war’s last surviving U.S. veteran, campaigning for greater recognition for his comrades-in-arms before dying at 110.

Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said. He was 110.

This is him:

Imagine the stories this guy had. I wonder if they got better with age.

Hey, if I ever make it to 110, my stories will have gotten spec-tac-ular. What, you gonna contradict me? You weren’t there. You weren’t even born yet!

More at Moe Lane, who notes that the title “doughboy” has also now officially passed. Maggie’s Notebook reports that two WWI vets – both British – are still alive. And there’s a Memeorandum thread, too.