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Title: America's last World War I veteran dies Frank Buckles lied about his age to get into uniform
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URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41821018/ns/us_news-life/
Published: Feb 28, 2011
Author: unk
Post Date: 2011-02-28 18:20:24 by Mad Dog
Keywords: Last WW1, veteran, has gone on ahead
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MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110. Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died peacefully of natural causes early Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. Buckles turned 110 on Feb. 1 and had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of World War I in Washington, D.C. Buckles lied about his age to join the army at age 16.The Missouri native was among nearly 5 million Americans who served in World War I in 1917 and 1918. "I knew there'd be only one (survivor) someday. I didn't think it would be me," he was quoted as saying in recent years. Buckles drove an ambulance during the war. The Washington Post said that with Buckles' death, only a 109-year-old Australian man and a 110-year-old British woman were believed to survive from the estimated 65 million people who served in the 1914-1918 war. On Nov. 11, 2008, the 90th anniversary of the end of the war, Buckles attended a ceremony at the grave of World War I Gen. John Pershing in Arlington National Cemetery. "I can see what they're honoring, the veterans of World War I," he told CNN. He was back in Washington a year later to endorse a proposal to rededicate the existing World War I memorial on the National Mall as the official National World War I Memorial. He told a Senate panel it was "an excellent idea." The memorial was originally built to honor District of Columbia's war dead. Born in Missouri in 1901 and raised in Oklahoma, Buckles visited a string of military recruiters after the United States entered the "war to end all wars" in April 1917. He was repeatedly rejected before convincing an Army captain he was 18. He was 16½. "A boy of (that age), he's not afraid of anything. He wants to get in there," Buckles said. More than 4.7 million people joined the U.S. military from 1917-18. Buckles served in England and France, working mainly as a driver and a warehouse clerk. The fact he did not see combat didn't diminish his service, he said: "Didn't I make every effort?" An eager student of culture and language, he used his off-duty hours to learn German, visit cathedrals, museums and tombs, and bicycle in the French countryside. After Armistice Day, Buckles helped return prisoners of war to Germany. He returned to the United States in January 1920. Buckles returned to Oklahoma for a while, then moved to Canada, where he worked a series of jobs before heading for New York City. There, he again took advantage of free museums, worked out at the YMCA, and landed jobs in banking and advertising. But it was the shipping industry that suited him best, and he worked around the world for the White Star Line Steamship Co. and W.R. Grace & Co. In 1941, while on business in the Philippines, Buckles was captured by the Japanese. He spent 3½ years in prison camps. "I was never actually looking for adventure," Buckles once said. "It just came to me." He married in 1946 and moved to his farm in West Virginia in 1954, where he and wife Audrey raised their daughter, Susannah Flanagan. Audrey Buckles died in 1999. In spring 2007, Buckles told the AP of the trouble he went through to get into the military. "I went to the state fair up in Wichita, Kansas, and while there, went to the recruiting station for the Marine Corps," he said. "The nice Marine sergeant said I was too young when I gave my age as 18, said I had to be 21." Buckles returned a week later. "I went back to the recruiting sergeant, and this time I was 21," he said with a grin. "I passed the inspection ... but he told me I just wasn't heavy enough." Then he tried the Navy, whose recruiter told Buckles he was flat-footed. Buckles wouldn't quit. In Oklahoma City, an Army captain demanded a birth certificate. "I told him birth certificates were not made in Missouri when I was born, that the record was in a family Bible. I said, 'You don't want me to bring the family Bible down, do you?'" Buckles said with a laugh. "He said, 'OK, we'll take you.'"
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#68. To: sneakypete (#67)
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The best attitude I ever observed in terms of modesty was when I was a cherry (slang for new person) in jump school. I asked a Navy diver type who was either UDT or a Seal in my jump class what the diver's bell on his utilities was. He said, "Well kid, I got that because I'm so good at cleaning up the Head." ( Slang for latrine/restroom) Those Navy types were impressive. When the Black hats grass drilled us the first latrine/water break in ground week waving around termination papers for people to take to quit these Navy types were screaming at us from the front leaning rest position we all were in for no one to quit. I heard of those guys even joining in a good grass drilling they observed an infantry AIT company doing just to do it to the consternation of the cadre present. Seals and UDT people are modest and soft spoken to an incredible degree.
What the HELL is Mad Dog's problem? It is his thread and he went ballastic for no known reason other than he gives no honour to a man that served America.
Another drama queen and energy stealer. Actually wants to usurp Mr Buckle's notoriety and make this thread about him/herself.
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Oh, fuck, lol lol
------------------------------------- He got mad at me and a couple of other guys a year or so ago because he was writing about sailors on boats being in combat in VN,and people pointed out to him the very obvious truth that the US Navy and the US Air Force had waiting lists of people wanting to enlist during the VN war in order to avoid the draft and having to go to VN as a grunt with the US Army or the USMC. He's seen nothing but flashing "TILT!.....TILT!....TILT!" lights in his head ever since,and never passes up an opportunity to make personal attacks against me. At first it pissed me off,but then I came to realize he is mentally unbalanced.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Those who have honor and truth decide. NOT you little "man". So I say again little "man", just to YOU little "man", just as an individual human being little "man". Yep little "man", YOU are a terribly insecure and afraid little "man". You are so afraid of your little contribution being diluted, or overshadowed by those of others who did their duty. YOU are what WW2 and Korean WAR vets despise most you little whiny bitch. YOU are so insecure about YOUR honor and contribution that YOU have to insult and dismiss entire branches of the Armed Forces. YOU TRY to claim the right to say who is and who is not a "true" or "combat" veteran, even when it's against the over arching specific authority the Department of the NAVY and Department of Defense in this case, who do decide, and who have decided. YOU are a sad, insecure, deeply afraid little "man". AND YOU don't get to make any of those calls, certainly not regarding me as an individual or anybody else you vile fraud. YOU try to demand something of which you have no idea of it's parameters or reality. While at the sam time YOU TRY to deny it to all others, except those who YOU select. LOL! FOOL! YOU couldn't even control your own personal animus towards me and the US NAVY enough to allow this thread to stand in HONOR and RESPECT for the last actual WW1 veteran Mr. Buckles. (Who was obviously the oldest living US ARMY veteran before his passing also). YOUR CLAIMED past service aside, (none of us gets to ride four decades unless you claim to have a CMH little "man"?), what YOU are NOW is a sad, bitter, angry, deeply scared, and self hating little "man", who doesn't even know what HONOR is. BTW little "man" REAL GOOD WORK SHOWING RESPECT FOR AMERICA'S LAST WW1 VETERAN'S PASSING. You know not HONOR little "man".
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RIP MR. Buckles. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
America's last World War I veteran dies, Frank Buckles lied about his age to get into uniform. RIP MR. Buckles.
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I've never heard sneakypete grab for all the vicarious or imagined honor you have. He's very soft spoken about his very honorable service in and out of combat. It's only in giving you the reality check you rate do you berate, pogy bait.
America's last World War I veteran dies, Frank Buckles. RIP MR. Buckles.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Stop sending mail. You are wasting your time making it, and mine deleting it unread. I have an ironclad policy on Pmail, we are not getting along, we don't do mail.
He is fun for a moment in time when you or anyone have a minute beyond serious discussion... he gives reflection for anyone willing to reflect on what live within his own mind.
Captain, Mad Dog IXX is in Ten Foward Lounge picking fights again claiming we wouldn't have Klingons and Romulans to worry about if his ancestor who owned a piece in the distruction of three obsolete Soviet Jets flown by Vietnamese had been allowed to run the world.
Testing...testing...A K A Loser suspended me when Brian S opused...and I cursed the owner.
If he suspends any more people, he'll have all of 5 people posting here, and 3 of them are the same person.
"Am I for or against abstinence?" - Sarah Palin
He's a leg other legs would loathe if he was in the Army with them, what can I say? If he was in an Airborne unit, he would go on at least one jump and be the wind direction dummy.
Did I hurt your feelings?
Murron auditioning for a cooking show. Mediocrity to some is better than nothing.
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RIP MR. Buckles.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
. RIP MR. Buckles.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
It took you over a minute to spam that in? How many shots of Yukon Jack did you do between posts?
RIP Mr. Buckles, (unlike those here that have disrespected you on this thread), you were an actual honorable MAN.
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You must actually believe I read these mailings you send. I just deleted this one like the last ones. You look childish trying to harrass through Pmail. The one thing nice about mail is you can see it and delete it with out having to see the spam in it. ;-D
RIP Mr. Buckles, (unlike those here that have disrespected you on this thread), you were an actual honorable MAN.
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I ALREADY TOLD YOU TO PHUCKING BAN ME. .................................... "#171. To: Bill D Berger, Goldi-Lox, yukon, ALL (#162) Goldi if this is really bilge de dildoe, you are a hypocrite and a LIAR. Your "word" means NOTHING. I don't want anything to do with a site that allows posters to call other posters "child molesters" and "child murderers", let alone sexualizing them like sneakyTRASH does. Let me make it easy for you Goldi since your word means nothing. Billie you are a foul cunt, I hear that you love to kidnap little children from your local malls and that you love to rape and torture them before you murder them, and then you make suits from their skins and cups from their skulls. It is also rumored that you like to eat their "tasty bits" pan fried with fava beans and a nice Old English 800. According to my sources you are banned for life from being within 1000 feet of any minor child, and that the next time you go down for child rape, you will be a three time loser and shift to your new career sucking the block's dicks and taking their dicks up your big fat ass. PHUCK you bilge, and PHUCK you Goldi. BAN me you miserable cunt. Do it NOW! Goodbye and good luck to yukon, and ALL of you good people who aren't foul, lying libTURD WHORES, TOOLS, FOOLS and idiots. Keep slapping the enemies of America and truth down! I won't purposely be part of a site such as this. Mad Dog posted on 2011-01-03 22:09:57 ET Reply Trace" Oh yeah ... "dear" bilge de burger, EAT SH!T AND DIE, YOU VILE, INSANE, LOW LIFE SCUM . (THAT ought to work.) Mad Dog posted on 2011-03-07 16:40:08 ET Reply Trace http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=303941&Disp=54#C51 You do know disrespect M. Doggie Dawg. That was a fart of a post you did today at eLPee.
Except when you go make to remind them you ain't ever coming back.
I donno Buck, think MD's going to get baned at eLPee this time? I mean, how disrespectful can Sally be, not even showing MD he's enough of a player to ban him when he asks for it to be done. ;-D Think he has barked and screwed, barked and screwed, barked and screwed so much there she don't even care to turn his account off? Guess he'll just have to go back in three more months and give her another piece of his mind. That is, if he has a big enough piece left to give her.
The Alaskan Yukon/Mad Dog (on the bottom) commemorative stamp was suck a howling success, Canada did one. (Of course both mutts had to promise to stay out of that country to get them to issue it.)
Did you have Yukon's boner in one hand and the mouse in the other as you put pieces of your spam archive together to make this post?. Not that there's anything wrong with that.....
The answer to the question, "could cornflake gurl possibly be anymore of a little lying cunt?" is OBVIOUSLY "YES!". I know what I have posted, and where I have posted it you craven little lying cunt. Sally deserves NO honor or respect, or do you NOW "love" her you craven little lying HYPOCRITE cunt? You have done nothing but disrespect Mr. Buckles on THIS thread you craven little lying cunt. THIS thread is supposed to be about Mr. Buckles. Spit ... You show ALL who read THIS thread that YOU have no honor, and no respect for HIM or HIS memory you miserable craven lying little cunt. I seriously doubt that you ever spent even a second in any US armed forces branch.
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. RIP Mr. Buckles, (unlike those here that have disrespected you on this thread), you were an actual honorable MAN.
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. Now THAT'S really respectful of Mr. Buckle's life and death isn't it faggot? Please pay these faggot creeps no mind Mr. Buckles.. RIP Mr. Buckles, (unlike those here that have disrespected you on this thread), you were an actual honorable MAN.
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Well, snookums, you can always write the Lane County Records Clerk in the Lane County Courthouse in Eugene, OR and ask them to sell you any of several DD Form 214s of mine as they allow vets to put on record free of charge. I have so many because I was also in the Utah National Guard in 1/19th Special Forces Group (Abn) and you get one each time a guard member goes on active duty to train. ;-) And if you want to bet money on the outcome of your search, I'm all for it if a third party holds the cash. I wouldn't mind taking your cash at all.
Why do you insist on telling us all what you and little "man" like to do faggot? RIP Mr. Buckles, (unlike those here that have disrespected you on this thread), you were an actual honorable MAN.
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Prove it faggot. RIP Mr. Buckles, (unlike those here that have disrespected you on this thread), you were an actual honorable MAN.
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Heh, I don't have to prove a blessed thing to you. But I will if you want to bet cash. ;-D
Why are you so such an insignificant little guy that Sally won't even delete your second opus you did out of indignation that you were so unimportant that Sally didn't even ban you the first time?
LMAO! Faggot, you don't much like being treated like you treat others do you? You LYING faggot you have never been in any branch of the US armed forces. It's YOUR job to PROVE that you were faggot. NOT mine.
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. LMAO! Faggot, you don't much like being treated like you treat others do you? You LYING faggot you have never been in any branch of the US armed forces. It's YOUR job to PROVE that you were faggot. NOT mine.
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Don't like? Buttercup, you amuse me. Like I always say; hire the Alaskan Palin Mentally handicapped fans, they are fun to watch.
ANYTHING to change the subject from your lies about being in the service eh faggot? . LMAO! Faggot, you don't much like being treated like you treat others do you? You LYING faggot you have never been in any branch of the US armed forces. It's YOUR job to PROVE that you were faggot. NOT mine.
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"And that's what it's all about. He is trolling for "thank you for serving!" posts that get him as giddy as a school girl."
#69. To: Ferret Mike, sneakypete, Mad Dog (#64)
#70. To: buckeroo (#69)
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What the HELL is Mad Dog's problem?
#71. To: sneakypete (#65)
If being a combat vet was that important to you,you should have enlisted in the USMC or the US Army instead of the Navy. They were both hiring the very day you enlisted. You didn't do this though,so live with your decision and shut the fuck up about it.
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#72. To: buckeroo (#69)
What the HELL is Mad Dog's problem?
#73. To: sneakypete (#65)
#74. To: Ferret Mike (#63)
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America's last World War I veteran dies, Frank Buckles lied about his age to get into uniform.
#75. To: Rek (#70)
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#76. To: Mad Dog (#73)
"Those who have honor and truth decide."
#77. To: Ferret Mike (#76)
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#78. To: Mad Dog (#77)
#79. To: Rek, Mad Dog (#70)
Another drama queen [Mad Dog] and energy stealer.
#80. To: buckeroo (#79)
#81. To: Ferret Mike (#80)
#82. To: Fred Mertz (#81)
#83. To: Fred Mertz (#81)
#84. To: Fred Mertz (#81)
Testing...testing...A K A Loser suspended me when Brian S opused...and I cursed the owner.
#85. To: Skip Intro (#82)
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and 3 of them are the same person.
#86. To: Ferret Mike (#78)
#87. To: Ferret Mike (#80)
#88. To: Mad Dog (#87)
#89. To: Ferret Mike (#88)
#90. To: Mad Dog (#89)
#91. To: Ferret Mike (#90)
#92. To: Mad Dog (#91)
#54. To: Goldi-Lox, yukon, 22rifle, Bill D Berger, little so called man aka sneakyTRASH, ALL (#51) WHY AM I STILL ABLE TO LOG ON TO THIS SITE SALLY?
#93. To: Mad Dog (#91)
"I won't purposely be part of a site such as this."
#94. To: Mad Dog, Buckeroo (#91)
#95. To: Mad Dog (#91)
#96. To: Mad Dog (#91)
"...sucking the block's dicks and taking their dicks up your big fat ass."
#97. To: Ferret Mike (#92)
#98. To: Ferret Mike (#93)
#99. To: Ferret Mike (#95)
#100. To: Mad Dog (#97)
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"I seriously doubt that you ever spent even a second in any US armed forces branch."
#101. To: Ferret Mike (#96)
#102. To: Ferret Mike (#100)
#103. To: Mad Dog (#102)
"Prove it..."
#104. To: Mad Dog (#101)
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"Why do you insist on telling us all what you and little "man" like to do...."
#105. To: Ferret Mike (#103)
#106. To: Ferret Mike (#104)
#107. To: Mad Dog (#106)
#108. To: Ferret Mike (#107)
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