Putting the "Great" in "Greatest Generation"

Picture this: 103 year old Navy veteran survivor of Pearl Harbor comes to speak at a middle school.   Guy had dodged strafing Jap planes and sprayed water on ammunition to keep it from exploding on the USS West Virginia, after the ship took 9 torpedoes.  Saw several of his buddies dead on the ship.  He asks a student to help him up from his motorized scooter.  The girl was no doubt feeling very solemn and concerned about not hurting the guy.  She pulls on his hand....and it comes off.  He used a prank rubber hand.  True greatness.

Just look at his expression as he sets up the gag.  I'm sure that his wonderfully sick sense of humor has a lot to do with him living to 103.  I have a new hero.