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One survivor saluted another Wednesday as Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in history, paid tribute to Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known living American-born veteran of World War I and also of West Virginia, at the Capitol. For a change, the 90-year-old Byrd, a nonveteran, wasn’t the oldest guy in the room; Buckles is 107. “I’m just a spring chicken!” Byrd exclaimed, gazing from his own wheelchair to Buckles, in his. Much of Washington’s community of veterans packed a small parlor off the Senate floor to honor Buckles and the upcoming 90th anniversary of the armistice between the allied nations and Germany that ended the war. The Associated Press
