Sunday, March 6, 2011

My Tribute To Frank Woodruff Buckles

Ladies and gentlemen: The United States Of America has lost its sole surviving Veteran of World War I. The Last of the Doughboys went on his Final March. Frank Woodruff Buckles passed away in the early morning of February 27, 2011. Although I have been posting various tributes and messages for Frank Buckles since February 28, I wanted to give myself time to create an appropriate tribute to him via video.

As some of you know, I met Frank Buckles back in 2009. In this video I discuss what occurred on that day from speaking German to Frank Buckles to his daughter Susannah telling me I "look like a Founding Father" to working out to artifacts to Megaliths to, of course, the two World Wars. I will always cherish the time that I spent with him, and, in the future, when I think back to our meeting, I will always remember it with a smile.

The url in case the video does not embed properly: https://youtu.be/eAmMB9QTZf4

By the way, I forgot to mention that, when he told me he went to England on the Carpathia, the ship that rescued survivors of the Titanic in 1912, I told him there was still one Titanic survivor living (Millvina Dean).

Here are my blog entries pertaining to Frank Buckles over the last three years:
http://michael-the-researcher.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-108th-birthday-to-frank-woodruff.html
http://michael-the-researcher.blogspot.com/2010/11/veterans-day-2010-and-importance-of.html
http://michael-the-researcher.blogspot.com/2011/02/frank-woodruff-buckles-americas-last.html

Let us all give a very hearty salute to Frank Buckles and all of America's Great War Veterans!!

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