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Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day to honor the pact signed to end World War I on November 11, 1918. But with only three servicemen still alive, this is potentially the last year the holiday will have a living connection to the vets that inspired it. Meet the last of their kind:
Claude Choules, 108 (Great Britain)
The only one of the three who saw active combat duty, Choules now lives in a retirement community in Perth, Australia. After enlisting in the British navy in 1916 (at age 15), he "witnessed the surrender of the German Fleet near Firth of Forth, Scotland, in 1918." Choules later served as a torpedo officer in World War II. He has just published his first book, an autobiography called Last of the Last. (Watch an ITN news segment about Claude Choules)
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Frank Buckles, 108 (U.S.)
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