(26 Jul 2025)
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Highland Beach, Florida – 26 July 2025
1. Various of Harold Terens and his wife dancing surrounded by family
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Harold Terens, World War II Veteran:
"Today we’re celebrating my 102nd birthday."
3. Various of children wearing "Babo 102" hats at the birthday celebration
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Harold Terens, World War II Veteran:
"I have created a family of 35 people. If I had been killed in the war, there would be no party and these 35 people would not be here today."
5. Wide of family applauding at the celebration
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Harold Terens, World War II Veteran:
"I am overwhelmed. I’m having trouble breathing. This is the most exciting moment, moment in time of my entire life. I thought my wedding and the steak dinner in Paris and my wife doing the can-can at the Moulin Rouge on our honeymoon. I thought that was the top of the line, the highlight of my life. But today, today is I’m so overwhelmed and blessed."
7. Terens speaking at the celebration
8. Terens’ wife Jeanne dancing
9. Various of attendees embracing Terens
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Harold Terens, World War II Veteran:
"Somebody is blessing me and making all of this happen. So I’m thankful to whoever you are, whoever, or whoever’s responsible for everything in my life, which has been beautiful."
11. Birthday balloons floating at celebration
12. Various of family gathered around Terens singing
STORYLINE:
Harold Terens fought in World War II. He’s lived almost 102 years, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks early with family and friends in Florida.
On D-Day — June 6, 1944 — Terens helped repair planes returning from France so they could rejoin the battle.
He said half his company’s pilots died that day. Terens went to France 12 days later, helping transport freshly captured Germans and just-freed American POWs back to England.
Terens was honored in June 2024 by the French as part of the 80th anniversary celebration of their country’s liberation from the Nazis. But that isn’t all that happened on those Normandy beaches.
He married Jeanne Swerlin at the age of 100.
Terens said at his birthday celebration Saturday that his brother got the traditional Jewish ceremony marking the beginning of adulthood when they were kids living in New York, but he did not.
Early next year, Terens said he will finally enjoy that ceremony.
At the Pentagon outside Washington, no less. Terens said that came about when he was talking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on a TV panel and a rabbi overheard the conversation.
Terens officially turns 102 on August 6.
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