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Air Forces, Father, Husband: Man Reflects on His 100 Years
AP News ^ | March 9, 2021 | Kevin Stairiker

Posted on 03/11/2021 6:25:28 PM PST by nickcarraway

Bob Adams has something that most people do not — a memory from 1923.

“I was just learning to walk, and I started to follow my father down to the basement — he went down to fix the furnace,” Adams says. “I started after him, and I went tumbling down to the landing and hit my head on the cat’s dish.” When Adams hit his head on that cat dish, he was 2 years old.

On Feb. 15, 98 years later, Adams celebrated his 100th birthday, and he celebrated in style, with a personal car parade outside of his apartment in Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community. Flanked by daughters Gail Miller and Regina “Regi” Chandler – and in spirit by his third daughter, Terri Jones, who died in November – Adams received a line of cars and firetrucks bearing his name on the side. Some 75 people from throughout his life came to visit while Adams, in a chair, sat outside and received them one by one.

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1 posted on 03/11/2021 6:25:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Great story! I created a fictional Email to get in and it worked!


2 posted on 03/11/2021 7:16:39 PM PST by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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My two older brothers and a sister were veterans of WWII...


3 posted on 03/11/2021 7:30:35 PM PST by tubebender
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He took photos of Albert Einstein, and thought that Einstein was in his 50s. Einstein turned 60 in 1939 before Mr. Adams became a photographer.


4 posted on 03/11/2021 8:11:46 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: nickcarraway

Cool story, God Bless him.


5 posted on 03/11/2021 11:36:59 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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