Last WW1 vet passes on.

[AAJagerX]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/28/veteran-wwi-dies-w-va-age-110/?test=faces


MORGANTOWN, W.Va. –  Frank Buckles, who lied about his age to get into uniform during World War I and lived to be the last surviving U.S. veteran of that war, has died. He was 110.

Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died peacefully of natural causes early Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. Buckles turned 110 on Feb. 1 and had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of the Great War in Washington, D.C.

When asked in February 2008 how it felt to be the last of his kind, he said simply, "I realized that somebody had to be, and it was me." And he told The Associated Press he would have done it all over again, "without a doubt."

 

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[Scotch]

 

[MarineUS]

wow....this is so saddening....

 

[Pigslilspaz]

 

[ozrocker]

The last of over 4,733,000 who served in WW1 is now gone.

 

RIP Frank Buckles


                                                                                      Oz

[Saxman]

The last of over 4,733,000 who served in WW1 is now gone.

 

RIP Frank Buckles


                                                                                      Oz

He was the last surviving AMERICAN vet. Implication is there's a handful of others still left.

 

[Anaxogoras]

Wikipedia says there's only one living combatant left, Claude Choules, from the UK.

[AAJagerX]

Wikipedia says there's only one living combatant left, Claude Choules, from the UK.

True.  The article that was posted stated that clearly.  I should've clarified that in the title of the post.

[JOACH1M]

  

[mthrockmor]

Sobering. 20 years from now we will be saying the same of World War Two vets.

 
Boo

[Maverick]

Rest in Peace and thank you.   

[Flench]

 

[Jack16]

He was the last surviving AMERICAN vet. Implication is there's a handful of others still left.

 

I was listening to the radio this morning and they said something like the only known survivors left from WWI was a man who is living in Australia and a woman from Britain.

EDIT: Their names are Florence Green(110 yrs.) and Claude Stanley Choules(109 yrs.)

[fbWldcat]

Sobering. 20 years from now we will be saying the same of World War Two vets.

 
Boo

Here's to hoping it'll be 40. <S>