Can I delete an item from a document but preserve it's last modified date?

Basically I want to remove an item from every document in the database but I don’t want the last modified date to change - is this possible ?

Here is the start of the code…

Sub Initialize

Dim session As New notessession

Dim thidb As notesdatabase

Set thisdb = session.currentdatabase

Dim thisdbview As notesview

Set thisdbview = thisdb.GetView(“Vdef”)

Dim thisdbdoc As notesdocument

Set thisdbdoc = thisdbview.GetFirstDocument

Dim dbtitleItem As NotesItem

Do Until thisdbdoc Is Nothing

Set dbtitleItem = Nothing

If thisdbdoc.HasItem(“DBTitle”) Then

Set dbtitleItem = thisdbdoc.GetFirstItem(“DBTitle”)

Call dbtitleItem.Remove

Call thisdbdoc.Save( False, True )

End If

Set thisdbdoc = thisdbview.GetNextDocument(thisdbdoc)

Loop

End Sub

Can anyone suggest me ,in this.