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197 years old
The combined ages of Robert Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator in history, and Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last living American-born veteran of World War I. For a change, Byrd, 90, wasn’t the oldest guy in the room. Buckles is 107. “I’m just a spring chicken!” Byrd exclaimed as he honored Buckles at the Capitol on Wednesday, gazing from his own wheelchair at Buckles in his.
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