Bill Text: PA HR313 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Recognizing former Army Corporal Frank W. Buckles, America's last survivor of World War I, who died on February 27, 2011, at Gap View Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia, at 110 years of age.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-25 - Adopted (199-0) [HR313 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HR313-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  1964

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

No.

313

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, ADOLPH, AUMENT, BAKER, BARBIN, BARRAR, BEAR, BENNINGHOFF, BISHOP, BLOOM, BOBACK, BOYD, B. BOYLE, K. BOYLE, BRADFORD, BRENNAN, BRIGGS, BROOKS, R. BROWN, V. BROWN, BROWNLEE, BURNS, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CAUSER, CHRISTIANA, COHEN, CONKLIN, D. COSTA, P. COSTA, COX, CREIGHTON, CRUZ, CURRY, CUTLER, DALEY, DAVIDSON, DAVIS, DAY, DEASY, DELISSIO, DELOZIER, DeLUCA, DENLINGER, DePASQUALE, DERMODY, DeWEESE, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, DUNBAR, ELLIS, EMRICK, EVANKOVICH, D. EVANS, J. EVANS, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FARRY, FLECK, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GABLER, GALLOWAY, GEIST, GEORGE, GERBER, GERGELY, GIBBONS, GILLEN, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HACKETT, HAHN, HALUSKA, HANNA, HARHAI, HARHART, HARKINS, HARPER, HARRIS, HEFFLEY, HELM, HENNESSEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, JOHNSON, JOSEPHS, KAMPF, KAUFFMAN, KAVULICH, F. KELLER, M. K. KELLER, W. KELLER, KILLION, KIRKLAND, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KOTIK, KRIEGER, KULA, LAWRENCE, LONGIETTI, MAHER, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MALONEY, MANN, MARKOSEK, MARSHALL, MARSICO, MASSER, MATZIE, McGEEHAN, METCALFE, METZGAR, MICCARELLI, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MILLER, MILNE, MIRABITO, MOUL, MULLERY, MUNDY, MURPHY, MURT, MUSTIO, MYERS, NEUMAN, OBERLANDER, D. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PARKER, PASHINSKI, PAYNE, PAYTON, PEIFER, PERRY, PETRARCA, PETRI, PICKETT, PRESTON, PYLE, QUIGLEY, QUINN, RAPP, RAVENSTAHL, READSHAW, REED, REESE, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, ROEBUCK, ROSS, SABATINA, SACCONE, SAINATO, SAMUELSON, SANTARSIERO, SANTONI, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, CULVER, SCHRODER, SHAPIRO, SIMMONS, K. SMITH, M. SMITH, S. H. SMITH, SONNEY, STABACK, STEPHENS, STERN, STEVENSON, STURLA, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TAYLOR, THOMAS, TOBASH, TOEPEL, TOOHIL, TRUITT, TURZAI, VEREB, VITALI, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER, WATERS, WATSON, WHEATLEY, WHITE, WILLIAMS AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 25, 2011

  

  

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, MAY 25, 2011  

  

  

  

A RESOLUTION

  

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Recognizing former Army Corporal Frank W. Buckles, America's

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last survivor of World War I, who died on February 27, 2011,

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at Gap View Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia, at 110

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years of age.

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles was the last surviving United States

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veteran of World War I according to the United States Department

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of Veterans Affairs; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles earned the World War I Victory Medal and

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the Army of Occupation of Germany Medal and qualified for four

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Overseas Service Bars; and

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WHEREAS, In 1999, Mr. Buckles was awarded the French Legion

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of Honor medal by then-French President Jacques Chirac; and

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WHEREAS, In addition to his military service Mr. Buckles was

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honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation; and

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WHEREAS, Born Wood Buckles on February 1, 1901, in Bethany,

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Missouri, Mr. Buckles enlisted in the United States Army,

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without proof of age, on August 14, 1917, after having been

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rejected by the Marines and the Navy; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles adopted his uncle's name, Frank Woodruff

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Buckles, when an Army sergeant insisted upon a middle initial;

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and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles drove transport motorcycles and

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ambulances in England in 1917 before serving as an ambulance

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driver in France in 1918; and

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WHEREAS, Following the armistice, Mr. Buckles was assigned to

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transport several hundred prisoners of war back to Germany; and

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WHEREAS, In January 1920, Mr. Buckles returned to the United

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States and mustered out of the Army; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles then pursued classes at a business

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school and worked in cargo and passenger steamships; and

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WHEREAS, During World War II, Mr. Buckles was a civilian

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prisoner of war in the Philippines for 38 months, having been

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captured by the Japanese while working for an American shipping

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company in Manila in December 1941; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles married Audrey Mayo in California on

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September 14, 1946; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Buckles ultimately settled in West Virginia,

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where he farmed the 330-acre Gap View Farm; and

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WHEREAS, A daughter, Susannah Buckles Flanagan, survives Mr.

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Buckles; and

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WHEREAS, Master sculptor George Marra of Tinicum, Bucks

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County, is crafting a bronze sculpture of Mr. Buckles as a young

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soldier leading his general's horse during the general's

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battlefield funeral procession; therefore be it

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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize former

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Army Corporal Frank W. Buckles, America's last survivor of World

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War I, who died on February 27, 2011, at Gap View Farm near

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Charles Town, West Virginia, at 110 years of age; and be it

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further

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RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to

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Susannah Buckles Flanagan in care of the World War I Memorial

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Foundation, 401 F Street, NW, Suite 324, Washington, DC 20001.

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