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Senate honors 'last living Doughboy' of WW1

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate on Wednesday honored 107-year-old Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last living American World War I veteran. Buckles is the last survivor of the more than 2 million ... read more

Last living U.S. WWI vet pushes for Great War memorial

Washington (CNN)-- There is only one living U.S. veteran of World War I: 109-year-old Frank Buckles, who was an Army corporal who drove a troop ambulance in Europe. On Veterans Day in recent years ... read more

Museum explores the impact of World War I’s horrors on children on the home front

including more than 53,000 combat deaths The last known U.S. veteran of World War I was Frank Buckles, who died in February 2011 at the age of 110 at his home in West Virginia. Mr. Naylor ... read more

Pershing's Last Patriot

Frank Buckles, a humble man who found himself in extraordinary places. He fought during WWI. In the 20's and 30's, he sailed the world. In the 40's, he was a prisoner during WWII. In the 50's ... read more

Greene History Notes

The U.S. veteran is Frank Woodruff Buckles, age 109, in Charlestown, W. Va. He lied about his age and enlisted at age 16 on August 14, 1917. Buckles served in England and France driving ambulances ... read more

A Quest to Remember

It was “a forgotten memorial to a forgotten war,” Fountain said. Spurred by his growing fascination with WWI, Fountain won the support of Frank Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of the ... read more

Australia reaches boat people deal with Malaysia

After American Frank Buckles died earlier this year, Choules was declared the last known combat survivor of a war that left 37 million soldiers dead or wounded. The only other surviving veteran is ... read more

O.J. Simpson: The Man Behind the Mask

Simpson spent a lifetime passing himself off as the genial Juice, an affable guy who went from sports hero to TV pitchman to smiling joke in a Leslie Nielsen movie. Then he made the terrible discovery ... read more

PREP TRACK & FIELD: Beautiful day beckons track athletes to Frank Carver Invitational

Three track meets in six days. Three plaques for Tyler Barrett to find a home. "I am not exactly sure what I am going to do with all these, I ... read more

To Score ‘Mary & George,' Oliver Coates Had to Make Music More Like an ‘Alexander McQueen Dress'

The composer of the Starz series "Mary & George," "Aftersun," and "Occupied City" discusses building metallic hits and ambient moans that make filmed stories feel more human. read more