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Effects of war. the most moving piece of my trip was that i got to spend 45 minutes in a classroom of ukrainian high school students in warsaw. and, look, i'm a high school zivics teacher. the ukrainian students could speak more english than i could ever speak polish or ukrainian. and they understand what's going on. one of the girls said to me, you heard what happened in bucha, and just looked at me with that kind of sense of sadness and fear. and one of the younger men, and this i will always remember, he gets up, young adult, ramrod straight, and he says to me, please tell your students in ...

Six and a half decades? well, the measure of just one man, britain's prince philip. eretired from public duty on wednesday. nick glass reports. ♪ >> reporter: ramrod straight, a man in a raincoat and a traditional bowler hat. from behind you would have been hard-pressed to guess his age, 96. or that this, after 70 years, was his final official engagement. as parades go, this was informal. prince philip just doing his thing, raising a smile and a laugh among young and old. as an ex-navy man, it seemed entirely apt that the parade at buckingham palace was by the royal marines. prince philip is...

Peter godwin is a former human rights lawyer in his native zimbab zimbabwe. he became an author. mandela wrote the forward his book. peter binart is at the university of new york. you pointed out that mandela was always different, even in prison you say everybody else wore rumpled clothes. he took pains to iron his clothes. he stood ramrod straight. he had the kind of imperial bearing. your foundation tried to train leaders in mandela's wake. do you think that the drop-off was inevitable ors had south africa taken a particularly bad spiral downward after nelson mandela? >> look, i think as a c...

Foreign correspondent and author. peter binard is an associate professor of journalism. if i may start with you, you pointed out that mandela was always different, even in prison, you say everybody else wore rumbled clothes, he took pains to iron his clothes, he stood ramrod straight, he had a kind of imperial bearing. your foundation tried to train leaders in mandela's wake. do you think that the dropoff was inevitable or has south africa taken a particular by bad spiral downward after nelson mandela? >> look, i think as a country, we have taken a knock, but i don't think the process has comp...