(CNN) -- The handful of surviving World War I veterans were celebrated Tuesday as part of 90th anniversary commemorations of the conflict that was meant to "end all wars."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at a WWI memorial in France.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Britain's Prince Charles, German parliament Speaker Peter Muller and Australia's Governor General Quentin Bryce held a joint remembrance ceremony at Fort Douaumont, where more than 300,000 men were slaughtered over 300 days during the Battle of Verdun.
The quartet laid wreaths at the foot of a massive French flag that soared over the ground between two large fields of crosses marking graves.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/11/world.war.one.armistice/index.html
Nice end of all wars....
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