GREAT FALLS, MT. – Walter Breuning, the world’s oldest man at 115, died Thursday.

His earliest memories stretched back 111 years, before home entertainment came with a twist of the radio dial. They were of his grandfather’s tales of killing Southerners in the Civil War.

Breuning was 3 and horrified: “I thought that was a hell of a thing to say.”

But the stories stuck, becoming the first building blocks into what would develop into a deceptively simple philosophy that Breuning, the world’s oldest man at 114 before he died Thursday, credited to his longevity.

Here’s the world’s oldest man’s secret to a long life:

• Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face. (“Every change is good.”)

• Eat two meals a day (“That’s all you need.”)

• Work as long as you can (“That money’s going to come in handy.”)

• Help others (“The more you do for others, the better shape you’re in.”)

Then there’s the hardest part. It’s a lesson Breuning said he learned from his grandfather: Accept death.

“We’re going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you’re born to die,” he said.

Breuning died of natural causes in a Great Falls hospital where he had been a patient for much of April with an undisclosed illness, said Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman for the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home where Breuning lived.

He was the oldest man in the world and the second-oldest person, according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. Besse Cooper of Monroe, Ga. — born 26 days earlier — is the world’s oldest person.

Breuning had lived in a sparse studio apartment in the Rainbow Senior Living retirement center since 1980.When he was recognized as the world’s oldest man and brought the retirement home some notoriety, he was offered a larger room. Breuning said no, Rainbow executive director Tina Bundtrock said in October.

Breuning would spent his days in an armchair outside the Bundtrock’s office in a dark suit and tie, sitting near a framed Guinness certificate proclaiming him the world’s oldest man.

He would eat breakfast and lunch and then retire to his room in the early afternoon. He’d visit the doctor just twice a year for checkups and the only medication he would take was aspirin, Bundtrock said.

His good health was due to his strict diet of two meals a day, Breuning said.

“How many people in this country say that they can’t take the weight off?” he said. “I tell these people, I says, ‘Get on a diet and stay on it. You’ll find that you’re in much better shape, feel good.’”

He had no family left but a niece and a nephew. They visited a couple of times at the retirement home, but they were strangers to him, he said.

Breuning’s real family, his support group, was there in the Rainbow.

“Yeah, we’re all one big family, I tell you that. We all talk to each other all the time. That’s what keeps life going. You talk,” he said.

Breuning talked current affairs with the other residents. One of his main causes was to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“War never cured anything. Look at the North and South right today. They’re still fighting over the damn war. They’ll never get over that,” he said.

Along with debating others about the fate of the nation, Breuning also spent time a lot of time reflecting. Sitting in his armchair, he would reach back across the century and lose himself in a flood of memories that began with his grandfather’s Civil War stories.

He also thought about what might have been. After 97 years in Montana, Breuning said he thought back to his transfer to Great Falls back in 1913.

What course would he have gone on, how different would that century have been for him if he had stayed in Minnesota?

“Sometimes I wonder what would have happened had I not moved to Great Falls. I think about that once in a while. What would have happened?” Breuning said. “I had a good job back (in Minnesota). But life is good here too.”

But he didn’t regret anything, and he implored others to follow his philosophy.

“Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you’ll be here a long time,” he said.

WASHINGTON -  A new book reveals that Abraham Lincoln slept with men in his bed in the White House.

There was more to Abraham Lincoln than we were ever taught in history class or were able to read in a book.

Thanks to porn king Larry Flynt, we can read all the sordid details because according to him, the lives of the nation’s past presidents, including Honest Abe, were governed by sex.

In his new book One Nation under Sex, Flynt takes an up-close-and-personal look at the sex lives of the Founding Fathers and beyond.

He told WWN: ‘There’s been a lot left out of history books, and we wanted to be more inclusive. For 35 years I’ve been exposing corrupt politicians, and I wanted to know if our Founding Fathers had the same follies or not.  Abraham Lincoln was the kinkiest of them all.”

Lincoln started sleeping with men when he lived in this log cabin:

But his biggest revelation is that Abe Lincoln liked to share beds with men.  “He would sleep with a different member of his cabinet every night.  That’s really what happened in what is now known as The Lincoln Bedroom.”

Flynt doesn’t have evidence that Lincoln had sex with all of these men, “but you can draw your own conclusions.  He loved sleeping with men and White House records show that he slept with men, more than he slept with his wife.”

Flynt teamed up with Columbia University lecturer Robert Makenbach to write his book, in order to give it some credibility.

Makenbach said: ‘I knew no one would read a historical book by a pornographer so I brought him in for the credibility.’

Makenbach said that many academics scorn books written for public consumption and certainly those dealing with sex lives, :so I knew this wouldn’t help my career,’ he admits. ‘But there’s more to life than tenure.  And the things that went on in Abe Lincoln’s bedroom makes for great reading!”,

Flynt and Makenbach were disappointed that historians have mostly whitewashed the Founding Fathers when it comes to spreading the word about their personal sexploits.

They researched and sourced the material over several years from sources including the National Archives, the Woodrow Wilson papers at Princeton, and the Roosevelt and other presidential libraries.  Here’s some of the other juicy tidbits they found out:

– Founding Father Ben Franklin helped save the American Revolution by seducing French women

– Dolley Madison (wife of fourth U.S. President James Madison) had affairs with numerous other lovers

– Fifteenth President James Buchanan’s gay love affair with a slave owner was a boon for secessionists

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor’s lesbian affairs spurred her on to become a crusader for equal rights

– Jimmy Carter like to dress up in a Teddy Bear costume when he had sex

– George Bush often masturbated in the Oval Office.

1863 A.D.: INFANTRY MADE UP OF INFANTS!

DURING the Civil War, the Confederacy won a victory in the Battle of Chickamauga and the North’s need for more soldiers forced President Lincoln to create a new branch of the infantry.

“A fierce patriot, Lincoln felt that all Americans should do their part in the war,” said Civil War historian Daniel Grey. “That’s why the new infantry consisted of drafted infants.”

While the babies in this new infantry weren’t required to fight, they did serve other functions. They were first used in military observation balloons.

“Hot air balloons were used for reconnaissance,” said Grey. “The babies were employed as ballast.

Although the babies were strapped to the outside of the gondolas, surveyors had to keep their ears plugged to block out all the crying. The babies were quite helpful in keeping the balloons from flying away.”

Drool was also a useful commodity.

“There was a shortage of oil in those days, and many of the union sabers were rusting from rain and blood,” said Grey. “Ulysses S. Grant realized that baby saliva was almost as good at keeping swords in good fighting condition. There was enough saliva to keep every sword in the Union from rusting.”

Babies also saw action on the front lines.

“Despite their young age, seasoned soldiers were able to show babies how to load muskets,” said Grey.

“Fortunately, the infants enjoyed shoving the ramrod in and out of the muzzle. Even amidst explosions, the babies were having fun.”

If it hadn’t been for Lincoln’s daring initiative, the outcome of the war might have been very different.

“It was certainly more successful than his other idea, which was to use baby cows as mounts,” said Grey. “The ‘calvealry’ never quite caught on.”