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WWI Veteran
4:58
pm
Mon February 28, 2011
Last U.S. Veteran Of World War I, Mo. Native, Dies At Age 110
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Kelsey Proud
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Frank Buckles at 106 years old wearing his French military decoration, the Légion d'honneur, for an interview with the U.S. Library of Congress in 2007.
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