THANK-YOU Mr. Frank Buckles for your service to the USA. RIP.
With his passing, history’s door on WW 1 is now closed.
We are still living with the aftermath of that war almost 100 years later.
WWI veterans were the greatest influences on me as a boy. The stories of war brought back by my grandfather and my great uncles...stories which forever made it impossible for me to see any “glory” in war, are as clear to me today as they were 50+years ago. They were, and are, all my heroes. I have pictures of them where I am sitting right now and also an autographed picture of another hero of mine from that war, Graf Felix von Luckner, commander of the Imperial German commerce raider Seeadler, who managed to sink thousands of tons of Allied shipping at the loss of only one life. Quite a man.
My wife told me of the passing of Mr. Buckles first thing this morning. It made for a sad day....