Sen. John Thune speaks with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles" class="extiw" title="en:Frank Buckles">Frank W. Buckles</a> during testimony Dec. 3, before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, subcommittee on national parks. Buckles was 107 years old, and was the last living World War I veteran from the United States. Buckles and Thune were testifying in support of the "Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act," which would rededicate an existing war memorial in Washington, D.C. as a national memorial -- creating for the first time a national memorial that commemorates World War I veterans.
C. Todd Lopez, United States Department of Defense
2008-12-04
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