--- title: 104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Asks People to Send Him Valentines description: A 104-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in World War II wants anyone who feels so inclined to send him a Valentine's Day card. canonical: https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-01-14T19:04:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-14T08:51:36.205Z og:title: 104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Asks People to Send Him Valentines og:description: "I'll save every one of them" og:url: https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d0582b4369ee07/698a08ccdb29879923264cab/Veteran-Valentines.jpg?branch=production&width=509&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 509 og:image:height: 286 og:image:alt: Veteran-Valentines og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Asks People to Send Him Valentines twitter:description: "I'll save every one of them" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d0582b4369ee07/698a08ccdb29879923264cab/Veteran-Valentines.jpg?branch=production&width=509&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Is Asking People to Send Him Valentines > Sponsored content. 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It didn't mean love before the 13th and 14th centuries_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 14, 2020 7:04 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 14, 2020 7:04 PM UTC A 104-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in [World War II](https://time.com/5667434/world-war-ii-global-power/) wants anyone who feels so inclined to send him a [Valentine’s Day](https://time.com/5134173/valentine-card-heart-book/) card this year. Maj. Bill White told [KTXL](https://wgntv.com/2020/01/11/this-104-year-old-marine-corps-veteran-is-asking-for-valentines-day-cards-ill-save-every-one/) that he will add any Valentines he receives to a collection of mementos that he keeps organized by year on the bookshelves in his room. “I’ll save every one of them like I’ve been saving little things that have come up until right now and they’ll be a personal part of my history,” White said. White said that the Purple Heart that he earned for surviving the [Battle of Iwo Jima](https://time.com/3709182/iwo-jima-flag-history/) sits on those shelves as well. “The fact that I even survived is something,” he said, explaining that he was wounded on the battlefield when a grenade blew up about 6 inches away from him. “There weren’t too many of us.” But while White said that hobbies like scrapbooking keep him busy, the real secret to his long life is to “just keep breathing.” “I can’t think of anything else,” he said. “I can give you all sorts of ideas and suggestions but if you’re not breathing, they don’t mean anything.” If you’d like to send a Valentine to Maj. White, you can mail it to: Operation Valentine ATTN: Hold for Maj Bill White, USMC (Ret) The Oaks at Inglewood 6725 Inglewood Ave. Stockton, CA 95207 ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/"},"headline":"104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Is Asking People to Send Him Valentines","datePublished":"2020-01-14T19:04:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T08:51:36.205Z","description":"\"I'll save every one of them\"","url":"https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Military","Valentine's Day","Holidays","Human interest","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d0582b4369ee07/698a08ccdb29879923264cab/Veteran-Valentines.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08d0582b4369ee07/698a08ccdb29879923264cab/Veteran-Valentines.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Veteran-Valentines","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/","name":"104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Is Asking People to Send Him Valentines"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How the Valentine's Day Heart Got Its Shape","description":"It didn't mean love before the 13th and 14th centuries","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IUey0IJs/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-02-13T14:12:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IUey0IJs.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/","duration":"PT1M16S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5764690/veteran-asks-for-valentines/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```