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Last WWI doughboy dies at 110

Frank Buckles, who 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, died Sunday at his home in Charles Town, W.Va. He was 110.

His death was announced on his website.

He was only a corporal and he....

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