WHITE OAK, Texas — An East Texas veteran who survived being shot down over the Adriatic Sea during World War II marked his 100th birthday days before Veterans Day.
Ervin Clower of the Lake Devernia community, between White Oak and Gladewater, celebrated a century Monday.
“I wouldn’t add anything to it or take anything from it,” he said Friday as he joked and told stories about his military service in the company of his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
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