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Frank Buckles (pictured l. in his 1917 enlistment photo) died at the age of 110, almost three years after becoming the last surviving American WWI veteran.
A chapter of American History has officially closed.
Frank Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, died of natural causes Sunday at the age of 110 in his Charles Town, W. Va., home, a family spokesman said in a statement.
Eager to serve his country and escape the tedium of farm life in Missouri, Buckles told the
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