The Last American WWI Veteran Frank Buckles Dies
This is pretty sad news and I haven’t seen any of the major news agencies reporting it. He died at the ripe old age of 110 yesterday the 27th of February. He died in his sleep at his farm in West Virginia. Men of this caliber are rarely seen today. Original Source of his biography located here, and here. Frank Woodruff Buckles’ life spans the awesome, horrible, fantastic, dreadful Twentieth Century. He has seen and experienced much. As America’s last surviving veteran witness to the First World War, his life experiences and perspective are a living artifact in our day […]
Honorable and Dutiful Men
I ran across this while reading a rare collection of articles by a rare man indeed. Those of you lucky enough to be familiar with the writings of Jeff Cooper will know what I mean. He was an unapologetic, unwavering and inflexible man that still believed in notions like honor, justice and bravery. These are concepts that we laugh at or spit on in today’s world, but they are the fundamentals upon which civilization is based. He extolled the three virtues that were first enumerated by Herodotus, then trumpeted by Theodore Roosevelt, and finally became the name of one of […]