MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Frank Buckles enlisted for World War I at 16 after lying about his age. He made it home again and ultimately became that war's last surviving U.S. veteran, campaigning for ...

Friends, fellow veterans and complete strangers are paying their respects to the last American veteran of World War I. The body of Frank Buckles is resting in a flag-draped casket at a funeral home in ...

The Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- He didn't seek the spotlight, but when Frank Buckles outlived every other American who'd served in World War I, he became what his biographer called "the ...

Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. veteran of World War I, has passed away at 110. A Missouri native who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines during World War II, Buckles lied about ...

Frank Buckles, the last living American who was in WW I, dies at 110. Frank Buckles receives an American flag during a Memorial Day ceremony on May 26, 2008, in Kansas City, Mo. At top is Buckles’ ...

With the passing of Frank Buckles at the age of 110 in Charles Town, W.Va., on Feb. 27, a momentous chapter in America's history ended. Buckles, who was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on ...

The longest-living American to serve in World War I survived war and prison camps, but in death he couldn't escape Washington politics. Nearly a week after Frank Buckles died at the age of 110, ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - He didn't seek the spotlight, but when Frank Buckles outlived every other American who'd served in World War I, he became what his biographer called "the humble patriot" and final ...

WASHINGTON -- Wearing a black POW-MIA beret and a vest emblazoned with "Vietnam Veteran," Charles D. White stood and saluted the flag-draped casket holding the body of Frank Buckles, the last American ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — He didn’t seek the spotlight, but when Frank Buckles outlived every other American who’d served in World War I, he became what his biographer called “the ...