Bonne Chance!

By YatPundit on March 12, 2008 10:09 AM | | Comments (0)
We salute you, M. Ponticelli:
France's last surviving veteran of World War One, Lazare Ponticelli, has died at the age of 110. President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the death on Wednesday, paying tribute to the last "poilu", as French WWI veterans were known.
One of the things I admire about our National World War II Museum is the way they've used oral history to capture the memories of these guys. It's like NPR and their "Story Corps" project, easy to get people talking, and you can always write up whatever you want to for wider distribution later.

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