Pentagon Honors WWI Veteran, Unveils Exhibit
By Megan • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Lisa Daniels reports for the Kansas City Info Zine:
“Defense Department officials honored one of the world’s last living World War I veterans in a ceremony at the Pentagon recently.
“I feel honored to be here as a representative of the veterans of WWI and I thank you,” said Frank Woodruff Buckles, 107, who wore multiple service medals and remained in a wheelchair. He received a standing ovation from the mostly military audience.
Buckles, who lives near Charles Town, W.Va., and his family were special guests during the ceremony, in which officials unveiled photographer David DeJonge’s World War I Veterans Exhibit. Dfense officials praised the exhibit for putting faces on a war that is largely forgotten and for which its generation is slipping away. DeJonge donated the exhibit, a collection of portraits of nine WWI veterans, for permanent display in the Pentagon.”
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