90 Years On, It's Still the War to End All Wars

Watch clips from Patton to Glory to Full Metal Jacket

(NEWSER) - In honor of Veterans Day, the Huffington Post runs down the best war movies of all time:

• Apocalypse Now: Vietnam War
• From Here to Eternity: Pearl Harbor
• Patton: World War II
• Braveheart: Scotland’s battle for independence
• Lawrence of Arabia: World War I
• Band of Brothers: World War II (and, yes, a mini-series, but a good one)

British man was one of the last surviving WWI veterans

(NEWSER) - Britain's oldest surviving veteran of World War I has died aged 113, the BBC reports. Henry Allingham, who became the world's oldest man after the death of a Japanese 113-year-old last month, passed away peacefully at a care home for veterans. Politicians and veterans' groups paid tribute to Allingham, who was highly active in keeping memories of the war alive and whose mind remained sharp until the end. More»

KC ceremonies honor last living doughboy, enlistee at 16

(NEWSER) - Memorial Day observances in Kansas City this weekend had a very special guest: the last surviving American veteran of the Great War. Frank Buckles, 107, who hoodwinked a recruiter to enlist in 1917, was honored today at the World War I Museum, Fox 4 News reports. "I was gung-ho," the onetime ambulance driver told the Kansas City Star yesterday after receiving a VFW medal. More»

Florence Green served as a mess steward in the Women's Royal Air Force

(NEWSER) - On Saturday night, the world lost its last known World War I service member. Though she never saw the front line, Florence Green, age 110, is thought to have been the last surviving veteran of the war. She was just two weeks shy of her 111th birthday, on Feb. 19, the BBC notes. Green joined the Women's Royal Air Force in 1918 at just 17 years old, two months before the armistice. She served food in the mess halls at RAF bases in England before leaving the service in 1919, after which she married and spent much of the rest of her life working at a hotel and volunteering with the Royal British Legion. More»

Debate rages over fundamental shift

(NEWSER) - Countries across the globe are divided—and it's only a matter of time. Some, including Britain and China, want to retain a special "leap second" occasionally added to the calendar to keep atomic clocks in line with the Earth's rotation. The US, France, Germany, and others, however, want to ditch the second . The matter is up for debate in Geneva today, the BBC reports, and barring an agreement among 200 countries, it could go to a vote. But "this is not a technical issue, it is more a diplomatic one," says an official with the International Telecommunication Union. More»