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A man believed to be the oldest World War II veteran in Florida will celebrate a milestone on Tuesday and reactions to the news have exploded online.
Chief Petty Officer William “Bill” Monfort is getting ready to celebrate his 108th birthday at his home at a care center in Clearwater, 11 Alive A few years ago, his nurse, Lisa Weaver, decided to ask people to send cards addressed to Bill Monfort at 3260 McMullen Booth Rd., Clearwater, FL, 33761, to honor his life:its report about Monfort’s birthday, it got huge reactions from Internet users. As of Sunday afternoon, the story had received 122,000 reactions, more than 43,000 comments, and more than 4,000 shares.
Despite his age, Monfort, who was among the first radiomen to receive Pearl Harbor attack calls, said recently, “I don’t feel old. People ask me all the time and I tell them, maybe 50.”Bill enlisted in the Navy when he was barely 19 years old. He survived kamikaze attacks and was among the first to respond to the Pearl Harbor attack, as his destroyer was just off the coast of Hawaii.“We shot down a lot of airplanes,” Monfort recalled.
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