Sondrak posted last week that Frank Buckles, the last surviving Doughboy of The Great War celebrated his 110th birthday.
Click here to read about Mr. Buckles. World War I doesn't get much respect from the history teachers nowadays, but it was big, and it was bad. I see in Sondrak's post that Mr. Buckles drove an ambulance while he was on the Western Front. Robert Service wrote a little about that;
go here for a small sample of a day in the life of an ambulance driver during WWI.
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