Feel-Good Friday: WW II Vet Earl Angel Celebrates 100 Years With His Love of 80 YearsBy Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
August 19, 2023
According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, about 122,000 World War II Veterans are still alive. The majority are in their 90s or older, and over 200 pass away every day. But one of them is still alive and celebrating his 100th birthday with panache. Earl Angel was born in August of 1923 and served in the Army as a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne. Mr. Angel is highly honored and decorated, enshrined in several monuments commemorating the WW II war heroes in Washington, D.C., and in museums in New Orleans and New York.
Mr. Angel is also a Purple Heart recipient. In fact, for his 96th birthday, he danced to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to raise money for the Military Order of the Purple Heart. While this video is fun and whimsical, Mr. Angel's war experience that made him a recipient of the medal was not.
“You know, I was shot in the head. You can’t believe that, can you?” he said. “I got shot right in the head, right through my eyebrow. You would never know it today? I had 32 stitches right there, and I laid in the foxhole for three days before they took me to the hospital.”
But Mr. Angel's love story with his wife of 80 years trumps even this. He lovingly described how he met Alice, his wife. Both were teenagers enjoying time together in the town square shortly before the war broke out.
Earl described the conversation Alice had with a friend before they met.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/08/19/feel-good-friday-ww-ii-vet-earl-angel-celebrates-100-years-with-his-love-of-80-years-n2162797
