Norman Lear credits "love and laughter" for his longevity on 100th birthday
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On his 100th birthday, Emmy award-winning television producer Norman Lear said the secret to his long life has been laughter.
On Wednesday, CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook posted a video of Lear to Twitter, in which the TV legend shared his secrets to remaining healthy and alert at 100.
"To look like me and sound like me is to have all the gifts of the culture, the gods, the fates, and the people I've loved, and loved me in return," Lear said on his milestone birthday. "I couldn't emphasize that more. I have been cared for, and I have cared, and I think it's mattered a lot."
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.