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This 100-Year-Old Veteran Reads to North Carolina's Blind Every Week. ‘It’s My Calling.’
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This 100-Year-Old Veteran Reads to North Carolina's Blind Every Week. ‘It’s My Calling.’
 
7 Nov 2022
Raleigh News & Observer | By Josh Shaffer

Every Wednesday morning at 10, Bob Kruger rolls his walker into the studio, plunks down in a comfortable chair and starts reading the newspaper in his gravelly voice -- a 100-year-old radio celebrity with an audience that swoons over every word.

He thumbs through the clippings he'll read on-air: Emperor Penguins Now Endangered, Britain's Prime Minister Stepping Down, North Carolina State Fair Boasts Big Attendance Numbers.

He even reads the grocery advertisements, because his listeners -- all of them blind or visually impaired -- will want to know if chicken thighs are on sale.

"When I do the obituaries," he says, "I always apologize ahead of time if I mispronounce the person's name. Let's face it: We all like to hear our own name."

Two Generations of Listeners

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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