Frank Woodruff Buckles, a onetime Missouri farm boy who was the last known living American veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110.God speed, God bless and thank you for your service, Mr. Buckles.
Buckles, who later spent more than three years in a Japanese POW camp as a civilian in the Philippines during World War II, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Charles Town, W.Va., family spokesman David DeJonge said.
A total of 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during World War I, from 1914 to 1918.
"I always knew I'd be one of the last because I was one of the youngest when I joined," Buckles told the New York Daily News in 2008, when he was 107. "But I never thought I'd be the last one."
Blithely rolling off the email trail and onto the information highway. (And it's a very short stumble from "blithe" to "blithering.")
Monday, February 28, 2011
In Memoriam
Frank Buckles, the last of the WWI doughboys, has passed away:
... it is a sad end to a huge piece of history.......
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