Claude Choules, Last Combat Veteran of World War I, Dies at 110

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The world’s oldest known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, died on Wednesday. But his legacy remains as a pacifist more than a fighter. Despite lying about his age to join the British Royal Navy at age 14 in 1915, and serving two wars, he simply “saw it as a job,” which he

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