“I got the idea when I was 92,” the still-spry renaissance man and former mess cook in the Navy told ABC news. “My daughter of course was quite upset that I was doing something like this at ...

He enlisted in the Navy in August 1941, when he was 17. He was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Curtiss at the Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, where he served as a mess cook ...