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Images: Fuentelviejo, La Alcarria (Castilla), december 2008; near Guadalajaras and TajuÑas combat front. First, and, for many heroes, last castilians landscape they had seen. Always in workers grateful memory. "Struggle is the elixir of life, the tonic of life. I mean if youre not struggling, you are dead," Milton Wolff, Spanish civil war veteran, born October 7 1915; died January 14 2008 "It is very difficult to say a few words in farewell to the heroes of the International Brigades, because of what they are and what they represent. A feeling of sorrow, an infinite grief catches our throat - sorrow for those who are going away, for the soldiers of the highest ideal of human redemption, exiles from their countries, persecuted by the tyrants of all peoples - grief for those who will stay here forever mingled with the Spanish soil, in the very depth of our heart, hallowed by our feeling of eternal gratitude. From all peoples, from all races, you came to us like brothers, like sons of immortal Spain ; and in the hardest days of the war, when the capital of the Spanish Republic was threatened, it was you, gallant comrades of the International Brigades, who helped save the city with your fighting enthusiasm, your heroism and your spirit of sacrifice. - And Jarama and GUADALAJARA, Brunete and Belchite, Levante and the Ebro, in immortal verses sing of the courage, the sacrifice, the daring, th discipline of the men of the International Brigades. For the first time in the ...
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