Here are some of the stories he has stories to tell.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Happy Birthday Mr. Buckles
Frank Buckles is the world's only surviving World War I veteran. He turned 109 today. Congratulations, sir.
He joined the Army at 16 and fought in Europe. During WWII he spent three years in a Japanese prison camp as a civilian prisoner of war. After that, he was a cattle farmer in West Virginia. More recently, he has become a driving force behind a WWI memorial.
Here are some of the stories he has stories to tell.
Here are some of the stories he has stories to tell.
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That's amazing. I'll check out his stories later at home. Work access is limited.
ReplyDeleteWow. Great story. And I love the cake photo. Love it.
ReplyDeleteI need cake now.
Nice tribute to Frank Buckles. I've skimmed a little, but will have to come back for more. It's a good history lesson for me kids...and me too! :)
ReplyDeleteLove the photo of the little girl eating cake!
"Cake Girl" was the photo I used when I first started my blog, but I had to stop because I kept baking cake.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine living that long? What you would have seen and done in 109 years? It blows my mind.
ReplyDeleteRebecca, he saw the invention of the air plane and a man land on the moon and a rover land on mars. The radio, movies, the computer. Now he has his own website. Every president from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Since you are Canadian, that might not meant much, but it is a lot of our history. It is amazing.
ReplyDeleteTracey, our histories are so closely linked by geography, that it means a lot to me, too. Most of the t.v. I watched as a child was American, after all!
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