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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on February 28, 2011, 11:19:06 AM
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RIP, Mr. Buckles.
Frank Buckles, Last World War I Doughboy, Is Dead at 110
Frank Buckles, who drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918 and came to symbolize a generation of embattled young Americans as the last of the World War I doughboys, died Sunday at his home in Charles Town, W. Va. He was 110.
His death was announced by a family spokesman, David DeJonge, The Associated Press said.
He was only a corporal and he never got closer than 30 or so miles from the Western Front trenches, but Mr. Buckles became something of a national treasure as the last living link to the two million men who served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in “the war to end all wars.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/01buckles.html?_r=3&src=mv
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