WWII veteran turns 100, recounts Pearl Harbor attack
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BENTON, Ill. (WSIL) The Cozy Table Restaurant in Benton is the place you can find a living World War II veteran.
At least twice a week, you can find Leonard Crofford at one of the restaurant s tables. He doesn t order the same thing twice. It s his way of keeping things interesting.
But he won t describe his time in the South Pacific as interesting . In fact it s a time he wishes he forgot. I didn t feel like anybody was interested in it. I just thought that they wanted to to forget it, Crofford said.