Frank Buckles was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. He would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I.
Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said. He was 110.
When asked in February 2008 how it felt to be the last of
his kind, he said simply, "I realized that somebody had to be, and it was
me." And he told The Associated Press he would have done it all over
again, "without a doubt."
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