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They said,
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"You can't execute an old, old man. He's senile."
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He wasn't at all.
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But you can't execute an old man
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who was the hero of Verdun, can you?
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So, they put him in house confinement on an island.
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There were still people trying to get to the island,
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which is off the coast of Brittany,
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and bring back his bones to Verdun.
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That happened only about ten or twelve years ago.
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So, France--it took a lot longer than the kind of gunning people down
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and the trials that went on after the war for France