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Cooley Hurd

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7. 116! Just to put that into perspective...

Reply to ND-Dem (Original post)

Thu Apr 2, 2015, 07:10 AM

Apr 2015

She:

• likely remembers a Roosevelt Presidency - TR's (he left office in 1909, when she was 10)

• is old enough to have volunteered in WW1 (a conflict of which there are NO veterans left alive)

• had just turned 21 in 1920... just in time to gain the right to vote

I hope she lives another 116!!!!

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