
99-year-old WWII veteran launches career as children’s book author: ‘Reading is a foundation’
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Sam Baker, 99, tells Fox News Digital about his books “The Silly Adventures of Petunia and Herman the Worm” and “Oscar the Mouse.”
When he returned to civilian life in the fall of 1947, Baker joined the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, which is now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Baker worked for NOAA for 30 years before he retired.
At the age of 95, Baker decided to take up writing.
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