Posted To: Pipeline Press In totally unrelated news to mortgage banking, GFE's, and investor changes, Canada's last known First World War veteran, John Babcock, has died at age 109. Babcock was born on an Ontario farm in 1900 and enlisted to join the war at the age of 16 after lying about his age. (The United States has one known surviving WW I veteran, Frank Woodruff Buckles of West Virginia, who recently turned 109.) An agent wrote to me and said, “Rob, I was explaining to a listing agent as to why we needed an appraisal review on her property last night.

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