In 2023 we celebrate the birthdays of Richard Jenkins and Marty Thomas who both turned ninety-nine this year. A marvelous journey this has been for both of them as they have experienced so much since 1924. Just to name a few, they were born during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. They lived through the highs and lows of “the roaring twenties” and also the great depression. They faced the realities of the dust bowl and World War II. Not only did they live through what we have only read in

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