There has been plenty of discussion at Talk:List of surviving veterans of World War I, and a recent deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of surviving veterans of World War I which decided to keep it. You must not edit war to enforce your own wish against the consensus decision of the community. Once your block is lifted, you must discuss it on the article Talk page if want to change anything - but as the AfD was so recent, you'd need to come up with some new argument