05/25/2020

WWII Vet Walking 100 Miles For His 100th Birthday

He intends to walk the full distance by summer's end

Mickey Nelson and sitting have never had much in common.

“I like to be doing something,” Nelson says.

True when Nelson was 17 and bought a bus to carry kids his own age, and younger, to school. True as he grew a single a bus into both a fleet and a 58-year-career. Now, true again, a month from Nelson’s 100^th birthday, as the WWII veteran sets out to walk 100 miles by summer's end.

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