Revisiting the Most Senior of Sr. Citizens

Celebrating his 113th Birthday, Walter Breuning is Now the Oldest Man in the World

(CBS)  Safe to say, no one was happier than the fire marshal - that instead of a candle for every year of Walter Breuning's life, party organizers went the digits.

Also safe to say fewer were happier to see Walter make it to 113 than CBS News Correspondent Steve Hartman.

Shortly after first meeting Walter at his assisted living center in Great Falls, Mont., Hartman accompanied him as he took his scooter out for a spin. It seemed like such a lovely, bright spring day. Unfortunately, Walter can't see in the sun - and nearly crashed his scooter.

Because Walter survived that scooter incident, and because of the recent passing of 113-year old Henry Allingham of England, Walter Breuning is now officially the oldest man in the world.

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Born in 1896, Walter still remembers his grandpa talking about fighting in the war - the Civil War.

He's the only man left born during the Cleveland administration. He can say where he was when President McKinley got shot.

Walter went to school under Teddy Roosevelt, and got his job with the railroad during the Taft administration.

Under Wilson, he signed up to serve, in World War I, but never got called. And by the time World War II rolled around, he was already too old.

Walter was married for 35 years - but his bride Agnes has been dead for more than half a century. They never had any kids, and he never had a second wife.

Walter still has all his marbles. He's not on any medicine, and normally watches what he eats.

And although normally, "oldest man" isn't a title one keeps very long, Walter has no plans on giving up the title anytime soon.

"You come back in 4 or 5 years and I think I'll be here," Bruening said. He even promised Hartman the exclusive interview.

Actually, all Walter has to do is make it another 2 years, 8 months and 10 days, and he'll be the oldest man ever.

[J-J-R]

God Bless...

[imprisoncheney]

How cool.

[storiccow]

' .. todays animal trainers are students of all ages what get all enthusiastic doing near to the animals the things the animals do .. todays dressed diligent sober celibate folk enjoy doing most things most time the lazy naked lusty dopey way .. todays congresses are comprised of uncountable flags and languqges and currencys and crafts and casseroles and blooms and biscuits and other assorted jargons and jingles danced .. the world was more pretty in the past and more delightful .. it's been ruined for generations future .. putting it back is a never ending joy .. and the war babys and their butts never stop begging to be made over .. again and again and again .. we don't need more trail crossing busses and more cure theorys and more beds and baths, we need more war babys butts into hurting war baby butts and less into being hurt .. '

[imprisoncheney]

storiccow --

Whatthe???

A submission for the annual Bulwere-Lytton (bad) Writing Contest?

Seems like you have a good shot at the top prize.

[storiccow]

' .. her husband said i am allowed to covet him, just that i have to do it publically and obviously and from at least a short distance, her great great granddaughter, however, wanted not even any thoughts of herself being coveted .. '


' .. i'd a strikingly sharp and clear and bright and colorful image of eternity when i was really little, like 3 feet and less tall, she was short and black and wearing dull dim underwear in a nudist camp .. usually in my dreams she was made out of endless webs of busy busy heavily heavily populated swamp muck, but that image of her was so strikingly sparce and lonely and quiet and empty and sullen, despite everyones exhuberance, that it felt as though it was an unnatural and contrived image from some time and some place seperate and far removed .. '


' .. most slum labor camps are intoxicatingly sexy, most pristine ones are the same .. but i am so used to those sexy ones, that, when i'm in a labor camp mood, i feel myself drawn like as if there is a hand cupping my hearts and a fleet of little tiny folk weighing down my legs compelling my sense of desperation to find one that is not sexy and to find it soon .. sometimes those feelings make me feel as if maybe i'm being violated in someway i don't want, but i try to dismiss those feelings and forgive them whether they are true or not, for most are drawn to the sexy camps to the extent that the others are interminably interminably desperate for attention .. '

[pintsizepetunia]

During this segment you had on the cutest red shoes ever, mind telling me what brand they are..I just have to have a pair for myself they are so....cute...Thanks..

[stuart-johns]

Actually, all Walter has to do is make it another 2 years, 8 months and 10 days, and he'll be the oldest man ever.

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Well he seems happy with life. I hope he makes it another 2 years, 8 months and 10 days and then some.

I'll bet this guy can tell some stories. I'd love to sit with him for a day.