Last living U.S. WWI veteran dies

CNN ^ | 02-27-2011 | staff

[Red Badger]

Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110. Buckles “died peacefully in his home of natural causes” early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge Buckles marked his 110th birthday on February 1, but his family had earlier told CNN he had slowed considerably since last fall, according his daughter Susannah Buckles Flanagan, who lives at the family home near Charles Town, West Virginia

[BooBoo1000]

Hey Frankie, thanks for your service, I will see you on the other side...Thanks Frankie...

[MPJackal]

“And Civil War veterans were acquainted with American Revolution veterans. Indeed, the links are remarkable.”

1770’s to 1860’s. I don't think there would be much of a link. Even War of 1812 would be a stretch. But I would agree Soldiers have a link with previous generations. Military traditions help ensure that.

[DestroyLiberalism]

May God bless Mr. Buckles and all of our World War I heroes.

We will forever be in debt to you for your honorable service to this great nation.

[namvolunteer]

I remember marching with the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts in parades with WWI vets. I guess they were about 60 then, about the same age as Cpl. Buckles, 110.

[SatinDoll]

My grandfather, too, was a WWI veteran, and endured WMD (mustard gas) during his service in the trenches.

Grandpa died back in the early 1960s, but he had led a full life as a native born American though a full-blooded ethnic German, born and reared in Ohio. He hated the Kaiser, fighting with the Americans, and despised and hated Hitler as a tyrant.

[Danae]

God bless you Frank Buckles. Thank you. Your memory, and what you acheived will live on.

Thank you God for such a magnificent man. We return him to you. AMEN

[Danae]

Thank you for posting that.

[Dubya]

Soldier rest, Gently pressed,
To the calm, Mother Earth's
Waiting breast;
Duty done, Like the sun:
Going West.


Thank you for your service.

[colinhester]

A chapter of our history is closed. God bless.

[nutmeg]

My grandfather, too, was a WWI veteran, and endured WMD (mustard gas) during his service in the trenches.

Oh, my grandfather told us about that horrible mustard gas! We still have his helmet and his gas mask from WWI.

Grandpa died back in the early 1960s, but he had led a full life as a native born American though a full-blooded ethnic German, born and reared in Ohio. He hated the Kaiser, fighting with the Americans, and despised and hated Hitler as a tyrant.

God bless your grandfather for his patriotism and courageous service!

These were such good and decent men... I sure wish my grandfather could come back for awhile so I could talk to him adult-to-adult. He died when I was a teenager...

[RasterMaster]

Rest in peace, Mr. Buckles.

http://frankbuckles.org/

[Ghengis]

And Civil War veterans were acquainted with American Revolution veterans. Indeed, the links are remarkable.

Indeed. My Grandfather -- born in 1890 -- recounted his Grandfather's West Virginia Civil War Home Guard experiences recounted to him as a child. And also his Grandfather and Father telling tales of the Appalachian frontier, Indian fighting and the Revolutionary War recounted to them by their Grandfathers. I was spellbound as these tales were passed on to me as a child.

[AbolishCSEU]

Hell the current generation has already “forgotten” 9/11. Scratch that. The majority of today’s generation are a bunch of jerry springer wannabe idiots that are traiterous to this country, think we DESERVED 9/11, but unfortunately have the right to vote.

God Speed, Mr. Buckles.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[elcid1970]

I remember an article about a group of WW1 vets who traveled to France for the 60th anniversary of Armistice Day. They were of course already into their eighties but paraded wearing their high necked tunic uniforms and flat steel helmets. Photographed close up these vets gazed into the camera with flinty eyes and set jaws like they did in the middle of combat many decades earlier.

It would be interesting to know just how many veterans of WW1 also served in the Second World War. Veterans of that conflict are dying off at a horrendous rate.

We who live are blessed by their service.

[Vaquero]

its a long way to tipperary....RIP

[chessplayer]

“A chapter of our history is closed. The end of an era, the last soldier standing.”

Not many WWII vets left, either.

[Arrowhead1952]

Thanks Kathy. I heard about this on the news today.

RIP

Cpl Frank Buckles

[chessplayer]

“The World War I Memorial Foundation”

“In March 2008, Frank Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, visited the District of Columbia War Memorial, on the National Mall in Washington DC. He observed that this peaceful, secluded memorial, dedicated in 1931 as a memorial to the 499 residents of the District of Columbia who gave their lives in that war, sits neglected and in extreme disrepair, and that there is no national memorial to World War I. Mr. Buckles issued a call for the restoration and re-dedication of the D.C. memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial.”
http://www.wwimemorial.org/

Not surprised. Like the Korean War, WWI is a “forgotten” war.