User blog comment:Dandalore/R.I.P Edward Newgate/@comment-24.18.184.247-20110131075817

Whitebeard was legendary. His friends were too. But he was old. All his friends that he grew up with were long gone. Rayleigh, Garp, Sengoku, they had all moved on in there own way, training new people, or hanging out bubble islands drinking. Point is they moved on and whitebeard never really did. He was the last of the old and it was time. Not sayin I like it, I didnt. No one would. But he did go out well though. He came back in front of the world and demanded respect one last time with the whole world watching. I can't think of a better way.

-R.I.P. Edward Newgate (whitebeard)