# Last American WWI Vet to Turn 110 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2011, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034 "2011-01-01T07:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 1, 2011, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/1 "2011-01-01T07:05:39Z")
At least, I hope he will. [Frank Buckles](http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/29/wwi.veteran/index.html?iref=allsearch), born on February 1, 1901. He seems to have slowed down considerably in the past couple of months. Here’s a Happy Birthday to you in advance, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/2 "2011-01-01T07:12:09Z")
Wow. Someday it will be WWII vets, then Korea, then Vietnam… crazy. If you had him in the Death Pool, would you then owe points when he died? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/3 "2011-01-01T13:49:01Z")
Of course, the ultimate record-holder was the last living participant in the Crimean War, who died in [2004](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/3607053.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/4 "2011-01-01T14:13:48Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Of course, the ultimate record-holder was the last living participant in the Crimean War, who died in [2004](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/3607053.stm) I take it he never got shelled? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/5 "2011-01-02T01:51:22Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Wow. Someday it will be WWII vets, then Korea, then Vietnam… crazy. My uncle is a WWII vet. 90 years old! It seems like only yesterday that I remember them all being middle aged. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/6 "2011-01-02T02:39:48Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > My uncle is a WWII vet. 90 years old! It seems like only yesterday that I remember them all being middle aged. [You must have been reading my mind …](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=589336) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-american-wwi-vet-to-turn-110/566034/7 "2011-01-02T04:15:40Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > My uncle is a WWII vet. 90 years old! It seems like only yesterday that I remember them all being middle aged. And my Dad (also a vet) just turned 89. Now I am the middle aged one! At least we’ll have something to compare each year Siam Sam “Yeah dad’s still alive and still fighting the war”