The end of the year is approaching and we tend to look at an overview of the year gone by and see if there’s a possibility of better times in the year ahead.

WW I finally ended in this year of 2009 for Britain. Last year in November, Harry Patch and two other World War I veterans, Henry Allingham and William Stone, aged 108, attended the annual Armistice Day ceremony in London. But Stone died Jan. 10 this year and Allingham aged 113 on July 18. Patch followed exactly one week later aged 111.