What do you give as a 90th birthday present to a man who survived a plane crash into the Pacific Ocean during World War II, only to endure unspeakable horrors as a prisoner of war, who admits he was "an alcoholic, chain-smoker, rotten, lowdown stinker" before he found redemption in his religion and never looked back?Who set a track record for the scholastic mile at Torrance High that lasted 20 years, and a collegiate mile record at USC that stood for 15 years. Who roomed with Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, stole a Nazi flag from the chancellery during the Games and was invited to shake the hand of Adolf Hitler...
...A necktie wouldn't cut it...
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