January 21, 2008
Louis de Cazenave, dead at 110.
France's oldest WWI veteran has died, leaving just one more -- the same as for Canada, Germany and Turkey. The UK, U.S., and Australia have three, and Italy two. Some striking comments in the obit.
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More on his story, pictures.
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Lost for words...
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What a guy. What a life.
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Our history is dying. First the Civil War widows and now this.
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I was reading about this guy yesterday. He retired from a railway job in 1941. So of his 110 years, he spent 68 of them as a retiree. Nice one.
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De Cazenave described patriotism as "a way of making people swallow anything" and war as absurd and useless. "Nothing can justify it, nothing." Why can't we listen to our elders? .
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Our history may be dying, as Doohickie says, but really, we can hear as much history as we choose. There are old folks all around us.
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Erich Kaestner, Germany's last WWI vet, died, and no-one knew.
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The last French veteran Lazare Ponticelli, died last week aged 110.