Editor’s Note: In 2009, I interviewed Frank Buckles, the sole surviving WWI veteran at the time until his death in 2011, at his home in West Virginia. It was an honor to meet him. I looked ahead to the Centennial of World War I, beginning in 2014, to commemorate the war that lasted from 1914…
WWI History Still Relevant Today

One display at the National World War I Museum and Memorial explains the global nature of WWI. (Photo: RET)