Twenty years ago, the United States launched an invasion of Iraq, beginning an eight-year conflict that resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemembers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
British-born World War II veteran Ron Holdsworth turned 100 in September. But he made it clear Thursday morning he was not too old to climb into the open cockpit of a 1940s-era Boeing Stearman biplane and take flight over Bakersfield.