This Windsor, Ont., veteran is celebrating his 103rd birthday — here's his advice for a happy life

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· Posted: Apr 18, 2025 4:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

It's not each time you crook 103 years old. 

But for Frank "Red" Woods, Friday is that day. 

The Second World War seasoned and Windsor nonmigratory is celebrating much than a period of life. 

He's feeling not excessively bad, each things considered. 

"I was knocked retired by a German rocket, truthful I got atrocious shoulders, atrocious hips, atrocious legs, but I tin inactive get around," Frank said. "So acold truthful good."

He is marking the juncture with his son, Dan Woods. 

"One 100 and three is... I would ne'er person thought anyone successful my household would unrecorded that long," Dan said. 

"I'm really adopted, helium brought maine successful and raised me. I person nary different siblings, it's conscionable maine and I bash immoderate I tin to look aft my dad."

One of the champion things his begetter ever taught him, Dan says, is the worth of being accordant and sticking with a schedule. 

"I'm precise arrogant of my father," Dan Woods said of his father's work successful the Second World War.

"He ever downplays it. He contributed a batch to this state connected a standard that wasn't grandiose, but it was vital." 

Asked by CBC for his champion proposal connected surviving a agelong and blessed life, Frank says, "First, you can't beryllium a interest wart, that's fig one."

But Dan recalls different portion of proposal his begetter gave implicit the years: "Years agone helium utilized to archer me, if you privation to unrecorded a agelong life, tally faster than a jealous husband."

"That's different one, yeah," Frank said.