He is the last living hero of an event which saw the beginning the « American Century »: after Harry Landis passed away on February 4, 2008 at the age of 108, Frank Woodruff Buckles, 107, born on February 1, 1901, is now the very last of 4,734,991 Americans who served in the First World War between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918. 116,516 were killed.
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