Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110.
Buckles "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge.
And while I have a lot of respect for all our vets, those who served in the Great War dodging gas, week long artillery bombardments and went over the trenches into a no-man's land of withering machine gun fire, mines, and barbed wire hold a special place in my heart.
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