[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 103 (Thursday, June 16, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5638]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING FRANK BUCKLES

  (Mr. MOONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOONEY. Madam Speaker, today I rise to share the story of an 
American patriot from Charles Town, West Virginia, which is where I 
live.
  Corporal Frank Buckles lived to be 110 years old. He died in 2011 and 
was America's last known World War I veteran. Buckles had enlisted in 
the Army by giving his age as 18 rather than his actual age of 16. He 
drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918 and came to symbolize a 
generation of embattled young Americans as the last of the World War I 
doughboys.
  Buckles later spent 3 years as a Japanese prisoner of war during 
World War II after being captured in the Pacific while serving as a 
U.S. contractor.
  Buckles lived on a 330-acre West Virginia cattle farm, where he drove 
a tractor until 102 years old. I am honored to introduce legislation to 
designate the United States Postal Service located in Charles Town, 
West Virginia, as the ``Corporal Frank Buckles Post Office.'' He was a 
true patriot and is most deserving of this honor in the town he called 
home for 50 years.

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