{"id":22039,"date":"2011-02-01T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22039"},"modified":"2011-02-01T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:56:33","slug":"happy-birthday-frank-woodruff-buckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22039","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Frank Woodruff Buckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow West Virginian, Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving World War I doughboy who also found himself in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Second World War turns a hundred and ten years old today according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/news\/hm-buckles-to-celebrate-110th-birthday-on-tuesday-20110131,0,2008458.story\">Herald-Mail<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A story in the May 30, 2010, edition of Parade magazine on Buckles said he lied about his age in 1917 when he was 16 so he could enlist. The Army sent him to France, where he drove ambulances and motorcycles. After the armistice, he helped return German prisoners of war to their country.<\/p>\n<p>In 1941, he was working in Manila for the American President Line, a shipping company. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines during World War II, Buckles was captured and spent 3 1\/2 years in a prisoner-of-war camp before he was rescued by American forces when they retook the Island nation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9L0hDCzkIc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buckles is the subject of a movie &#8220;Pershing&#8217;s Last Patriot&#8221; to be released next year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"410px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/frankbuckles\/americas-last-ww-1-survivor-the-story-of-frank-buc\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read about him at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/people-places\/last-doughboy.html\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow West Virginian, Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving World War I doughboy who also found &hellip; <a title=\"Happy Birthday, Frank Woodruff Buckles\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22039\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday, Frank Woodruff Buckles<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}