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Last WWI Vet Buckles Will Lie in Basement at Arlington, Not Capitol Rotunda
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The last American doughboy from World War I will lie in honor in a basement chapel of the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery -- not the U.S. Capitol rotunda -- and then be interred on Tuesday. In a brief announcement, the cemetery said Army Cpl. Frank Buckles, who died at 110 on Feb. 27, will be "memorialized" and will "lie in honor" at Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater Chapel from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. for the public to pay their last respects. There is no ceremony planned in the amphitheater, even though congressional leaders said they had asked the Pentagon to allow a ...
Will Congress Let Frank Buckles, Last WWI Vet, Lie in Capitol Rotunda?
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNearly everyone agrees that Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran who died last month at age 110, should be honored. Buckles' passing has been noted by leaders in his home state of West Virginia and nationally. He has been celebrated by veterans' groups, who hail him as the last link to the tens of thousands of dough boys killed in the Great War. A military funeral is planned at Arlington National Cemetery. President Obama ordered flags on federal buildings flown at half-staff on March 15, the day of the burial. Before Buckles is laid to rest at Arlington, however, his ...
The Book on Frank Buckles: America's Last Doughboy
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsI met Frank Woodruff Buckles on a chilly March afternoon in 2007 at his farmhouse in Charles Town, W.Va. He was a mere 106 years old back then. The last surviving American veteran of World War I lived on nearly four more years. He died Sunday at 110. At the time we met, Buckles was one of four known surviving U.S. veterans from World War I and the only one still able to give interviews. With time running out -- or so I thought -- I drove over from Washington, D.C., to interview him at his home for USA Today. Getty Images / AP Frank Buckles is shown at left in 2008, at the age of ...
Frank Buckles, Last American Veteran of WWI, Dies at 110
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsFrank Buckles, the last known surviving American veteran of World War I, a onetime Missouri farm boy who lied about his age to join the Army in 1917, has died at age 110. Buckles -- who also survived 3 1/2 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II -- died of natural causes at his home in Charles Town, W.Va., biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge told The Journal of Martinsburg, W.Va. The veteran celebrated his 110th birthday earlier this month, but his family said that his health had been deteriorating since late last year. He died Sunday. Getty Images / ...
Frank Buckles, Last Living US WWI Vet, Dies at 110
By not in system - AOL NewsMORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Frank Buckles was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. He would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I. Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said. He was 110. Getty Images / AP At left is Frank Buckles, then 107, after receiving the French Legion d'Honneur in 2008 during an award ceremony at the French Embassy in Washington. At ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
How Pingpong Changed the World
By David Moye - AOL News
(Dec. 14) -- When people talk about cultural forces that changed the world, pingpong rarely comes up. But the lowly sport may actually be responsible for some of the biggest political and social changes of the last 75 years, including the Cuban revolution, the rise of American suburbs and even the advent of modern-day video games. That's the thesis of "Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World" (Harper Collins), a new book that reveals the impact of what authors Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz say is the most popular yet least appreciated sport on ...
Length of Afghan War Headed for Record Books
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 11) -- So much for troop withdrawal deadlines. "The Obama administration is increasingly emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014, a change in tone aimed at persuading the Afghans and the Taliban that there will be no significant American troop withdrawals next summer," The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That date is still four years away, but taking the administration at its word (even though that word just changed), that means the Afghan war, which in October entered its 10th year of world's superpower vs. ...
After Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod, We Need a Slow-News Movement
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt was the biggest American news exclusive of World War I. In a breathless cable that immediately went out over the wire on Nov. 7, 1918, thrilling a war-weary world, United Press correspondent Roy Howard reported from Paris in telegraph-ese: "URGENT ARMISTICE ALLIES GERMANY SIGNED ELEVEN MORNING HOSTILITIES CEASED." The United Press scoop was marred by only one pesky factual problem -- the actual armistice was not signed until four days later, Nov. 11. The resulting reputation for unreliability helped consign the penny-pinching UP to perpetual also-ran status in its 20th-century competition ...
Fallen WWI Marine to Get Stateside Burial 92 Years Later
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 21) -- More than 90 years after George Henry Humphrey was killed in northern France during World War I and quickly buried in an unmarked grave, the fallen but not forgotten Marine is getting a proper burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Humphrey, who was 29 at the time, was killed on Sept. 15, 1918, when a machine gun bullet pierced his helmet during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. Under German fire, his fellow fighters buried him in the woods in a rural area, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His brother, Oliver, tried to find the remains, and the next year he made contact ...
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