Posted on 02/27/2011 10:11:41 PM PST by RobinMasters
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
Buckles in 1917
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Rest in Peace, Mr. Buckles. I Salute You Sir.
Over there, over there!
Send the word, send the word, over there!
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming ev’rywhere!
So prepare, say a prayer, send the word, send the word to beware!
We’ll be over, we’re coming over,
And we won’t come back ‘til it’s over Over There!
RIP Mr. Buckles. SALUTE.
I was just thinking about this gentlemen the other day. And so now WWI passes into the same realm of history as the Spanish American War and the Civil War before it... secondhand sources only. The end of an era.
I well remember the Memorial Day parades that featured
remaining WW 1 vets.
I must be getting really old now.
Strange. The exact same story, pictures and all, with no variation whatever in wording appears on CNN.com -
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/27/last-living-u-s-wwi-veteran-dies/?iref=allsearch
One would almost think that they authored it!
Indeed, the end of an era.
Rest in peace good sir!
(He was a nice looking kid from what I see in that old photo)
It gives me a strange sort of lonesome feeling reading of his passing....I’m certain many are feeling the same way.
Imagine what it would have felt like for him all those years ago
if he could have somehow seen the future and know that some day he would be the last American WW1 soldier to die.
That is amazing.
I would encourage people to support Honor Flight programs if they have one in their region, aiming to take WWII vets to see their memorial in Washington before it is too late. The flight is free to the vet.
As you know, they are already frail, and vets die while on the waiting list...
The last of the greatest generation of men on EARTH!!
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
RIP
Bobalu......you said it so well....”A strange and lonely feeling.”.....Me too. Thank you.
My grandfather who fought in the “Great War” as it was called, died in 1965 at the age of 84.
Quite an accomplishment to be the final representative for the hundreds of thousands, who were called to serve.
Corporal Buckles, mission accomplished, In honor of your selfless service, Troop, Pass in Review.
my maternal pappy...Boyd Sullivan of Smith county MS...WWI and PERSHING VILLA expedition. .....died 1980
Flanders poppies....decorated all their graves here in the 60s when i wasa laddie
No wonder he lived to 110. Look in his eyes. You can tell that that’s one tough, stubborn dude.
Even in that old picture he looks awfully tough and no-nonsense.
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