Comments on: Living Memory and The Last Doughboy http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/03/05/archives/post-perspective/living-memory-doughboy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-memory-doughboy Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Ima Ryma http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/03/05/archives/post-perspective/living-memory-doughboy.html/comment-page-1#comment-79577 Ima Ryma Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:22:04 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=31144#comment-79577 Frank Woodruff Buckles is my name.
Died one hundred and ten years old.
The reason I have current fame
Is that I was the last, all told,
Surviving U.S. veteran
Who took up the proud Doughboy fight
To victory in World War I,
To pay the price for what was right.
The memories lack sight and sound.
There was no bearing witness press.
Some rally songs did come around.
I listened to them less and less.

After living the first World War,
I hoped that there would be no more.

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