Oldest Living Man in Montana

Walter Breuning is being touted as the new “oldest living man” at age 112. He lives in a nursing home in Montana and says he’s grateful for his good health. The previous man to hold the title, Henry Allingham of England, died Sunday at age 113.

It’s one thing to talk about the oldest man on earth, but it’s another to put yourself in his shoes and try and imagine all the things he’s seen and heard his entire life. For example, Breuning said he first learned to “read by kerosene lantern, remembers his grandfather telling him about fighting in the Civil War, and cast his first presidential ballot for Woodrow Wilson.”

Believe it or not, his family genes would have never predicted his long life, either. Both his parents died before they were 50, and four of his siblings died in their 70s. He wisely believes good health is the greatest thing you can have. (I second that!)

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