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President Obama meets with 110-year-old veteran Emma Didlake

Friday afternoon, Emma Didlake, the oldest living United States veteran, met with President Barack Obama in the White House. The veteran was born in 1905 in Bolingee, Alabama. Known as “Big Mama”, Didlake joined the military at the age of 38 in 1943, where she served for seven months as an Army private and a …

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