^[1]Newtyle, Scotland | The famed football truce (see 26 Dec 2003 ^[2]) of 25 December 1914 has lost its last witness. Alfred Anderson, 109, believed to be the oldest man in Scotland, died in a nursing home Monday. His death severed “the last tangible link between the nation and the 690,235 Scots who served in the Great War ^[1],” the Scotsman eulogizes in Tuesday’s editions. Serving as a private in the Black Watch 5th Battalion, the Dundee-born joiner witnessed the impromptu, Christmas Day truce during which German and Allied soldiers exchanged cigarettes, sang carols and played football. “I remember the eerie sound of silence ^[3],” Anderson recalled in 2004. “All I’d heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices. But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see.” Anderson in 1998 earned the Légion d’honneur ^[4], France’s highest military honor, to mark his service.