Glenn Durban of Voorheesville celebrates his 101st birthday with an apple pie and a family dinner on Aug. 19. Born in the United States of Danish parents, he was raised in Denmark, returning to the U.S. on a college scholarship. When World War II broke out, he could have claimed his Danish citizenship, but, he said, “I felt civic obligation.” And, he said, he wanted to get the Germans out of Denmark. He was wounded on Iwo Jima. He had a career at General Electric and still lives in the Swift Road house he built himself where he and his wife, Sylvia, raised four sons and a daughter.

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