"War is a calculated and a condoned slaughter of human beings."

Thus spake "[t]he last surviving veteran of the trenches of the Great War," introduced to us by J.K. Baltzersen, and shown in the above video two years ago at the age of 109 — Harry Patch, RIP.

He was also the "the oldest first-time author," and wrote these words in his book: "[P]oliticians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder."

May God rest this noble soul.