🎉 Happy birthday! 🎉 It's not every day you get to meet a centenarian - not to mention someone who has reached 107! 🥳 Veteran and beloved Compton resident Joe Harris just hit that milestone and celebrated with a neighborhood block party. 🎂🎈
COMPTON, Calif. --
"The party was wonderful for the block. We have not seen our family or he has not seen his nieces and nephews in four years due to the pandemic of course, and today was a very enjoyable wonderful day," said Harris's daughter, Tanya Pittman.Harris is revered as a veteran who has a long history of serving his country. He was part of the Buffalo Soldiers, and then was a member of the triple nickel paratrooper unit, which was the first African American paratroop unit in the US Army.
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