Today honors millions, but one of that number deserves a particular moment of honor and appreciation. I have embedded a news clip from the Voice of America, recounting the extraordinary service of Corporal Frank Buckles, the last known surviving American veteran of the First World War.
Buckles is now aged 107, and lives in West Virginia.
Buckles had to bluff his way into the service at age sixteen, and served with distinction in the First World War. His service and discipline on behalf of our country did not end when that war ended. Astonishingly, only a generation later, he also spent three years as a prisoner of war of Japan during the Second World War.
The VOA’s Deborah Block reports on a life singular and inspiring —
Thank you, Corporal Buckles