PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- An Oregon man marked a major milestone Saturday morning, donating his 100th gallon of platelets to the American Red Cross - enough to save over 400 lives.

David Schapiro, 62, a bus driver for the Hillsboro School District, told KOIN 6 News that from a young age he was "ingrained" to do good when he could. He said his blood donation journey began when he was a young man in the U.S. Navy, when he and his friends would frequent a local donation center, then go out for a beer.

"Then when we came to Oregon, it was kind of just a continuation of that, because I've lived in a lot of places, being a Navy brat and then being in the Navy," he said. "So I moved around, but that's where I kind of got started."

Schapiro noted he first started donating whole blood - the most

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