The last WWI combat vet. He became a pacifist. Think long and hard about that. Maybe dying for your country ain't all it's cracked up to be.
I would have liked to hear what this guy had to say about that. The last of the last. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/relative-claude-choules-the-last-combat-veteran-of-world-war-i-has-died-in-australia/2011/05/04/AFxTxfsF_story.html
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