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If a Civil War veteran were born in 1845, served in his late teens, and died at 85, then anyone older than 90 could have spoken to him.
Play with assumptions a bit, or go back a few decades, and the numbers become much less extreme.
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If a Civil War veteran were born in 1845, served in his late teens, and died at 85, then anyone older than 90 could have spoken to him.
Play with assumptions a bit, or go back a few decades, and the numbers become much less extreme.