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Mr. Buckles and the family would like to express our deepest condolences to the family of John Henry Foster Babcock Canada's last known WWI veteran. Our thoughts and prayers go to the family and to Canada for this loss of a true and splendid hero who inspired countless individuals.
John Babcock Canada's
last known veteran of WWI
(July 23, 1900 – February 18, 2010)
Dear Fellow Patriots:
4,734,991 Americans served and 116,516 Americans died during World War I. By fate I have become the last. I am thankful for my full life as a Veteran, former WWII POW and farmer. I have received thousands of messages from visitors to this website, of which I cherish every one.
92 years ago I left my home in Missouri for a lifelong journey of serving my nation. I was stationed in England, Germany and France to serve the United States of America. On February 1 I will turn 109 and will continue to look forward to honoring my nation as long as I can.
In 2008 I agreed to serve as the honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to establishing a national World War I memorial on the Mall in our nation's capital, Washington DC. I am dismayed that while the country has erected national memorials to World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam veterans, there is no such memorial to "the war to end all wars."
You can help me support this cause by making a donation on the foundation's website, www.wwimemorial.org and by signing the foundation's petition asking Congress to authorize a national memorial, at http://www.petitiononline.com/wwi2009/petition.html.
Please also contact your Congressman and Senators and ask them to support the Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act, the bill currently before Congress as H.R. 482 and S. 2097. You can contact your Congressman at http://www.house.gov/ and your Senators at http://www.senate.gov/.
Finally, I call on my fellow veterans to ask their local American Legion or VFW chapters to sponsor resolutions in support of this cause.
Thank-you for your interest in my story as America's last World War One Survivor. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers and am humbled to be the representative all of the Americans who served with me.
Patriotically yours,
Frank Woodruff Buckles
John Babcock Canada's
last known veteran of WWI
(July 23, 1900 – February 18, 2010)
Dear Fellow Patriots:
4,734,991 Americans served and 116,516 Americans died during World War I. By fate I have become the last. I am thankful for my full life as a Veteran, former WWII POW and farmer. I have received thousands of messages from visitors to this website, of which I cherish every one.
92 years ago I left my home in Missouri for a lifelong journey of serving my nation. I was stationed in England, Germany and France to serve the United States of America. On February 1 I will turn 109 and will continue to look forward to honoring my nation as long as I can.
In 2008 I agreed to serve as the honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to establishing a national World War I memorial on the Mall in our nation's capital, Washington DC. I am dismayed that while the country has erected national memorials to World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam veterans, there is no such memorial to "the war to end all wars."
You can help me support this cause by making a donation on the foundation's website, www.wwimemorial.org and by signing the foundation's petition asking Congress to authorize a national memorial, at http://www.petitiononline.com/wwi2009/petition.html.
Please also contact your Congressman and Senators and ask them to support the Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act, the bill currently before Congress as H.R. 482 and S. 2097. You can contact your Congressman at http://www.house.gov/ and your Senators at http://www.senate.gov/.
Finally, I call on my fellow veterans to ask their local American Legion or VFW chapters to sponsor resolutions in support of this cause.
Thank-you for your interest in my story as America's last World War One Survivor. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers and am humbled to be the representative all of the Americans who served with me.
Patriotically yours,
Frank Woodruff Buckles
