# Frank Buckles, last surviving American WWI vet, dies at 110.

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**Created:** [February 28, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-buckles-last-surviving-american-wwi-vet-dies-at-110/572923 "2011-02-28T15:05:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-buckles-last-surviving-american-wwi-vet-dies-at-110/572923/21 "2011-03-16T03:43:51Z")

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RIP, Frank. ☹

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**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-buckles-last-surviving-american-wwi-vet-dies-at-110/572923/22 "2011-03-16T08:32:52Z")

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> I can remember when the last few Civil War vets were dying off (around 1950). Actually, I am old

Yes, you are…LOL…Although this thread makes ME feel old. I remember about 17 or 18 years ago, (93/94) we had an assembly with a WWI vet when I was in jr high.

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-buckles-last-surviving-american-wwi-vet-dies-at-110/572923/23 "2011-03-16T11:51:25Z")

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I remember WWI vets, too. They seemed happy: maybe because happy people live longer, or because their war, though it had a higher number of deaths-per-day than subsequent US wars, only lasted a short while. Though there was one old grouch, a retired railroad worker, who angrily refused my bid to shovel his driveway for a measly fifty cents.

For perspective, the last of Napoleon’s soldiers died when Frank Buckles was one year old. Kurt Cobain lived only a little more than one year past the last veteran of the Spanish American War.

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