At a country club in Alamo Sunday, friends and family of World War II veteran Alfred Gross, celebrated their beloved 'Alfee' on his 100th birthday.
ALAMO -- Memorial Day is a time to honor those who died for their country and, on the day before Memorial Day, there was a celebration for a veteran who survived America's largest war who has advice for the country he loves.
Gross is one of a dwindling number of living veterans who served in World War II. He enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and eventually became skipper of a small convoy escort ship, the USS PCE 842, hunting German U-Boats in the Atlantic and Japanese submarines in the Pacific. Finally, as the war was winding down, he helped evacuate Australian prisoners of war from the island of Borneo.
"You know, I've always had a very happy disposition. I always smile," he said."People ask me, how are you? I always say 'no complaints' even if I have complaints because I know they really don't care! But that's my outlook. I'm known around where I live as 'No Complaint Alfee.'"
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