DRACUT,Mass — Sound the alarm. There’s cause for celebration. It’s not every day you see triple digits on a birthday cake, but Pat Walor celebrated his 100th birthday with dozens of his family and friends in Dracut.
“I am happy that is all I got to say. I am glad they are all coming down because you only live once,” says Pat Walor.
And what a life he’s lived. As a young man he was wounded in combat while serving in the United States Army during WWII.
“We started with 12 million men who served in WWII, that is a lot of people and when you look around today all these years later pat is one of the few surviving WWII veterans that we have so he is in a pretty small group we have right now,” says John Deyermond, a retired Major General in the U.S. Army.
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Pat is also one of the few centurions left in America. According to Boston University as of 2021 there were fewer than 90,000 of them.
“This really is a great celebration. We’re here today to recognize a man who made a major milestone in his life 100-year-old Army Veteran going strong,” says Deyermond.
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