Frank Buckles, last surviving American WWI vet, dies at age 110

Monday, January 16, 2017 - 13:43
WW1 - less with us
Ethan Sacks, NY Daily News

…"I always knew I'd be one of the last because I was one of the youngest when I joined," Buckles said in his interview with the Daily News, after he became the last surviving member of those 4.7 million.

"But I never thought I'd be the last one."…

With Buckles' passing, there are only two documented surviving veterans of The Great War left - 109-year-old Claude Choules and 110-year-old Florence Green, both of whom are British.

"Somebody has to pass it down. If I'm the last one, then I have to be the one to do it…"

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