The Great War

The First World War Explains Modern Conflict

O'Brien Browne | Posted 02.08.2012

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We live in the world created by the First World War. Emerging from this cataclysmic event damaged and transformed, we have never wholly recovered.

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Journalist Recalls Interviewing Last Surviving American WWI Veteran

aolnews.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

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I met Frank Woodruff Buckles on a chilly March afternoon in 2007 at his farmhouse in Charles Town, W.Va. He was a mere 106 years old back then. The l...

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