104-year-old veteran Maj. Bill White was hoping to gather 100 valentines for his scrapbook, but the operation went viral and he's now received more than 300,000 messages.
104-year-old US Marine Corps veteran Maj. Bill White wanted to expand his collection of memories this holiday. So, he asked people around the world to send him some Valentine cards.
Did they ever."The walls are covered in them," Executive Director at Oaks at Inglewood Diane Wright told CNN."We put them in the library, the living room, the media room, the activity room and an empty apartment."Maj. Bill White received cards, coins and thousands of other gifts. Wright estimated they've received"over 300,000 cards" over the past several weeks and says they're still coming in.
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