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Posted By: Lighter
12-Nov-09 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: Obit:Last of the Last-WWI veteran, dies at age 110
Subject: RE: Last of the Last - WWI veteran, author at age 108

One U.S. veteran of World War I is still with us - Frank Buckles of West Virginia. He's 108.

Not only did Buckles serve in France in 1918, he was a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles