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Arthur Jackson was one of only four Medal of Honor recipients still living from World World II.

Jackson will always be remembered in Idaho. February 24 is Art Jackson Day. It was a proclamation made in 2016 by Gov. Butch Otter.

Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor who was recognized as the oldest man in the world by the Guinness World Records, died on Friday, a month before his 114th birthday.

He celebrated his bar mitzvah last year, a century late.
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Kristal, who lived for over a century and witnessed two world wars, had said the world is in a worse state today.

“The world is worse than in the past,” he said. “I don’t like the permissiveness here. Everything’s allowed. At one time, young people weren’t as cheeky as they are now. They had to think about a profession and about making a living. They were carpenters, tailors. That doesn’t exist today. Now it’s all high-tech. Things come easily, without effort, without the manual labor of the past. When were children, our parents told us, “You’ll marry this one, not that one. Today, children decide everything. Once upon a time, parents had the last word.”