Saturday, May 23, 2009

Frank Buckles, DC War Memorial featured on ABC World News Tonight, CNN

Over Memorial Day weekend, ABC World News named Frank Buckles as its "Person of the Week." ABC profiled Mr. Buckles' remarkable life, and cited his call for a national World War I memorial. On CNN, Anderson Cooper's AC360 blog (Read Forgotten vets: ‘Doughboys’ deserve honor too) also discussed the need for a national World War I memorial on the Mall in Washington.


Thursday, May 21, 2009

Frank Buckles To Appear on ABC World News with Charles Gibson

Frank W. Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran, will be featured on ABC's evening news program Friday, May 22. Mr. Buckles spoke to ABC about his call for a national World War I memorial on the Mall in Washington DC, adjacent to the national memorials to the other wars of the 20th century.