Fitzpatrick’s Two Drunken Flights
26. American pilot Thomas Fitzpatrick was a World War 2 and Korean War veteran who once stole a plane and landed it at 3 am in front of a bar in New York City while being intoxicated. About two years later, he did it again because a bar patron didn’t believe him (again being intoxicated).
27. Daniel F. Bakeman, the alleged last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War, also had the longest recorded marriage at 91 years, 12 days: The only documented marriage to have broken the 90-year anniversary mark.
28. An Australian war veteran named Don Ritchie prevented over 160 people from killing themselves at a popular suicide spot by speaking with them and offering them tea or breakfast at his nearby home.
29. James Hard was a US Civil War veteran who died at 111 years old, living long enough to see both World War 1 and World War 2. He saw the world going from using rows of musket fire to nuclear arms within his lifetime.
30. In 1947, the Kiwanis Club of Ahoskie in North Carolina held a drawing for a New Cadillac. When a Black Navy Veteran won, they said there had been a mistake, returned the winner the $1 price of his ticket, and drew again for a white winner.
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