WASHINGTON, D.C.–Hoosier World War II Veteran Clyde Milligan turned 100 years old on Thursday. He was honored by Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young on the Senate floor.

“At the end of 1941, a teenage attendant was knocked down when an air compressor exploded at a Hoosier Pete filling station in Indianapolis. The blast broke windows, tore off the roof of a room, and cracked a wall. But it could not keep Clyde Milligan down,” said Young.

Young said it didn’t take Milligan long to recover from that and get into a recruiting station. He later became a staff sergeant.

“As a staff sergeant, he guarded beaches in Virginia and Maryland, then vulnerable to U-Boat attacks. This assignment was made sufferable by the dances held at the camp. But those evenings and any other comforts were just me

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