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A 100-Year-Old Pool Legend | Birmingham News
A hundred-year-old WWII veteran still dominates the pool table six to seven nights a week, proving age is just a number. Edward Gill, once an aviation radioman and later an air traffic controller, now lives life at full throttle—thanks to his late-night pool tournaments, cookies, Coke, and one banana. Photographer Jeff Rease, documenting America’s fading WWII heroes for his “Portraits of Honor” project, finds in Gill not just a living legend, but a joyful reminder that life’s best chapters are still being written. Gill’s story—rekindled by his daughter after his wife’s passing, and fueled by…
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