Frank Buckles Quotes

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I’ve ever seen.

My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

I gave the general a snappy salute.

Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.

In the Philippines in those last months, it was perfect starvation. They had planned to starve us to death.

If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.

When you start to die, don’t.

One day, I came in and she was on the telephone. She was quite pale. She told me that I wouldn't believe what was going on. She was being watched. She said she would not be able to invite me for tea again. She was a nice Jewish lady.

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

I was gung-ho, no question about that.

I don't know anyone my age.

I had many different assignments and I was doing things that I thought were important... no, I didn't either: I didn't think they were important. But I found out afterwards when I read up on my history that some of the things that I did were quite important.

Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?

Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.