sentences:  A reverent crowd of the powerful and the ordinary—President Obama and Vice President Biden, laborers and store clerks, heads bowed—came to salute Buckles's deceased generation, the vanished millions of soldiers and sailors he came to symbolize in the end.In Martinsburg, West Virginia, on March 26, 2011, a candlelight vigil was held in memory of Buckles.Attendees made donations for a planned statue of him in Charles Town.