From the Jan. 31, 2011 Richmond (Va) Times-Dispatch "Last US WW I vet approaches 110) by Bill Lohman.
An early happy birthday to the last of his kind, the last Doughboy. The last man standing of the millions (including both of my grandfathers) of men who marched off to the Great War in 1917.
He is one of only three surviving veterans of the war. The other two were in the British military: one in the RAF and the other Royal Navy.
Frank Woodward Buckley still lives on his West Virginia farm near Charles Town, with his daughter Susannah Buckles Flanagan and round-the-clock care-givers.
He is still alert and occasionally sick.
More to Come.
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