WWII Vet

World War II veteran Foy Mercer at his Gastonia home on November 10, 2010. Mercer has survived the battle of the bulge and brain surgery, but still remains lively in his nineties.

I thought it was cool listening to this vet tell his story. As it turns out, he's lived just about everywhere I've lived, only a few (or more) decades earlier. He was a pastor in Brevard, where I went to College, and in Rocky Mount, where I got my first newspaper job and lived for a year. Small world.