BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

Frank Buckles is dead. He didn’t die this week. He died in February 2011 at the age of 110.

Why do we care? Frank Buckles was the last living American veteran of World War I.

At the time, World War I was not known as World War I. It was known as “The Great War.” We didn’t know we were going to have to number world wars back then.

The shorthand for the beginning of The Great War is this (from PBS.org):

— On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo. Continue reading →