Not one little bit.
But then again, he served in the Army Air Corps in World War II.
Sass was among 300 veterans expected to show up Wednesday at the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center for their first round of vaccination shots for the respiratory illness. Another clinic was also underway Wednesday in Missoula, one was scheduled for Thursday in Billings and yet another is planned for Jan. 21 in Havre.
World War II veteran Michael Sass, right, receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic for veterans at the Montana VA on Wednesday. THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record
The Montana Veterans Affairs Health Care System lined its hallways at Fort Harrison with Helena-area vets.
Tanya Manus
Journal staff
South Dakota Hall of Fame photographer Bill Groethe is being remembered by colleagues and his family as a man passionate about capturing the beauty and history of South Dakota and who passed along his love of photography to as many people as he could.
Groethe died Dec. 20 at age 97. The lifelong Rapid City resident is best known for his exclusive photos of the last reunion of nine Oglala Sioux survivors and descendants of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn and for documenting the carving of Mount Rushmore.
Groethe photographed many local and national political leaders as they visited the Black Hills, including presidential visits of both George Bushes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama. In 1996, Sen. Tom Daschle invited Groethe and his wife, Alice, to an honoring ceremony in Washington, D.C., to recognize his work in the Smithsonian Archives. Groethe was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 2019 and had con