Veterans Day 2013: Veteran, 107, credits whiskey (& cigars) for long life - Richard Overton

LA Times ^ | 11/11/13 | Rene Lynch

[Libloather]

Veterans Day will be bit different for Richard Overton. The man believed to be the nation's oldest living veteran spends most days smoking cigars and enjoying his whiskey. But today? He's spending Veterans Day with President Obama.

Overton, 107, enjoys up to 12 cigars a day and likes to enjoy his morning coffee with a little whiskey, a beverage he credits in part with his long, healthy life. The Austin, Texas, resident still drives, walks without a cane and regularly attends church. He said he was taken aback when he got the invitation to the White House.

[MrIndi]

Whiskey and Cigars..check

Been doing both for a number of years, might have to kick up the cigar numbers though..

I’ll get back to you when I celebrate #100..

[Repeat Offender]

But, what could they possibly have in common? All those younger girls are into things like televisions and store bought sliced bread. Hell, they don’t even like vaudeville.

[Tammy8]

I helped a friend get her father into a nursing home when he was 80+ and he and another patient there were caught by staff sleeping together- and the story is they actually were sleeping. Anyway the lady’s family became upset and thought he was taking advantage of her...staff was upset and called my friend. Her son came home from the Middle East the next day or two after this incident. My friend was explaining the whole situation to her son and asked him to have a talk with his grandfather about it when he went to visit him so he would not end up evicted. I will never forget the look on her son’s face, hearing all this...the son looked at his mother and asked her if she was seriously telling him to have a talk about the birds and bees with his grandfather. A moment of lightness in the midst of a problem.

[Crucial]

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