And then there were one...

Frank Buckles is the last surviving American veteran of World War One.  Two others who joined the military during the war but had not yet completed basic training when the war ended also survive.  This past weekend might have seen the last Veterans Day with a living veteran of the Great War that Veterans Day was originally meant to honor.

It’s hard for anyone, I imagine, to say for certain what it is that we will lose when Frank Buckles dies. It’s not that World War I will then become history; it’s been history for a long time now. But it will become a different kind of history, the kind we can’t quite touch anymore, the kind that will, from that point on, always be just beyond our grasp somehow. We can’t stop that from happening. But we should, at least, take notice of it.

God help us.