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Title: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: AAJagerX on February 28, 2011, 12:25:41 AM: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/28/veteran-wwi-dies-w-va-age-110/?test=faces (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."

:salute :angel:
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: rpm on February 28, 2011, 12:40:16 AM: <S>
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Post by: Scotch on February 28, 2011, 12:41:17 AM: :salute
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Post by: MarineUS on February 28, 2011, 12:52:11 AM: wow....this is so saddening....

:pray :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: Pigslilspaz on February 28, 2011, 01:47:17 AM: :salute
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Post by: ozrocker on February 28, 2011, 06:19:16 AM: The last of over 4,733,000 who served in WW1 is now gone.

:salute

RIP Frank Buckles

Oz
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: Saxman on February 28, 2011, 07:32:12 AM: Quote from: ozrocker on February 28, 2011, 06:19:16 AM
The last of over 4,733,000 who served in WW1 is now gone.

:salute

RIP Frank Buckles

Oz

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

:salute
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: Anaxogoras on February 28, 2011, 07:41:39 AM: Wikipedia says there's only one living combatant left, Claude Choules, from the UK.
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: AAJagerX on February 28, 2011, 11:49:40 AM: Quote from: Anaxogoras on February 28, 2011, 07:41:39 AM
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.
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: JOACH1M on February 28, 2011, 11:51:46 AM: :salute :angel:
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: mthrockmor on February 28, 2011, 11:56:01 AM: Sobering. 20 years from now we will be saying the same of World War Two vets.

:salute
Boo
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: Maverick on February 28, 2011, 12:14:07 PM: Rest in Peace and thank you. :salute
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Post by: Flench on February 28, 2011, 12:17:31 PM: :salute
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Post by: Jack16 on February 28, 2011, 07:47:07 PM: Quote from: Saxman on February 28, 2011, 07:32:12 AM
He was the last surviving AMERICAN vet. Implication is there's a handful of others still left.

:salute

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.)
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: fbWldcat on February 28, 2011, 07:48:48 PM: Quote from: mthrockmor on February 28, 2011, 11:56:01 AM
Sobering. 20 years from now we will be saying the same of World War Two vets.

:salute
Boo

Here's to hoping it'll be 40. <S>
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Post by: BrownBaron on February 28, 2011, 08:01:37 PM: :salute
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Post by: stealth on February 28, 2011, 09:13:32 PM: :salute
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Post by: mthrockmor on February 28, 2011, 10:04:10 PM: A young recruit who was 17 years old fighting at Okinawa in late mid-1945 was born in 1928. That makes them 83 right now, or there abouts. With medical technology let's hope 40 years is closer to reality. I have a 15-yr old and I have been trying to introduce her to some WW 2 vets. She finds it obnoxious now but when she is older she will appreciate it.

I have met one WW 1 Vet. He was Utah's last veteran, passed away in 2002. Sadly, I didn't know he was a WW 1 Vet until he passed and the newspaper did a full write-up on him.

Just sad!

Boo
Title: Re: Last WW1 vet passes on.
Post by: Angus on March 01, 2011, 03:22:34 AM: I wonder if there is a book about him. Must have had a lot to tell.
RIP
:salute