Frank Buckles, Last Known American Veteran of WWI, Dies at 110
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Frank Buckles, who fibbed his way into the U.S. Army at age 16 and lived to become America’s last known World War I veteran, has died. He was 110.
He died yesterday of natural causes on the West Virginia farm where he lived since 1954 with his daughter, Susannah Flanagan, the Washington Post reported.