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why did they wait until he was 105?
The announcement by the Czech Government that he was to receive this award was made on his 105th birthday in May. They had previously honoured him in 1998, and again in 2008, as well as nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize and naming a school after him. In 2009 they unveiled a statue of him at Prague station and ran a period train 70 years to the day that the 9th and final train failed to run, owing to the UK declaration of war. All 250 children due to travel on it probably perished as a result. Oh, and a planet was named in his honour!
I'd say they haven't so much left it late but rather are probably determined to heap more and more honours upon him for as long as he lives...
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