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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: People from Charles Town, West Virginia, People from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Frank Buckles, Walton Danforth Stowell, Martin Delany, John P. Lucas, John H. Quick, Robert Lucas, Arthur Warren, Courtney Cummz, Thomas Worthington, M. Jeff Thompson, James Jett, Joseph Howard Hodges, John Yates Beall, Daniel B. Lucas, Frances Meehan Latterell, William Lyne Wilson, Jack Germond, Edwin Gray Lee, Willard Preble Hall, Jared Maurice Arter, Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Washington, R. Preston Chew, William Price Craighill, George William Johnson, John Astle, Richard Latterell, Alexander Boteler, Henry Bedinger, Charles Washington, John Peale Bishop, Cameron Snyder, Emanuel Willis Wilson, Thomas W. Cridler, William Lucas, Ferdinando Fairfax, John Michael Cummings, Warren B. English, Edward Lucas, John James Abert, Tom Patterson, James Lemen, William Howard, John Kearsley Mitchell, John Servis, James M. Thomson, Thomas L. Moore, Gary Gregor, Robert Rutherford, John Baker, Lawrence Augustine Washington, Thomas Van Swearingen, John Alexander Moore, Andrew Hunter. Excerpt: Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles; February 1, 1901 - February 27, 2011) was the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1917 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe. During World War II, he was captured by Japanese forces while working in the shipping business, and spent three years in the Philippines as a civilian prisoner. After the war, Buckles married in San Francisco and moved to Gap View Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia. A widower at age 98, he worked on his farm until the age of 105. In his last years, he was Honorary Chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation. As chairman, he advocated the establishment of a...
