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Let him eat cake… and whatever else he wants… he’s 90 years-old
The Lucas Chapter held their monthly meeting on Jan 28, 2009 at the Chez Andre restaurant in Alexandria, Va.
He’s 90 now, but still the feisty, alert, congenial, one-time Marine combat correspondent who everyone calls “Obie.” On Jan. 31, one day after his birthday, he avowed that, “I still feel the same today as I did yesterday, It’s no big deal.”
Colonel Sally Pritchett, USMC (Ret) applauding as the slice of cake is delivered. Cy, aka "The Leprechaun" blows out one candle as the fire marshall forbid us to light 90 candles
Cyril “Obie” O’Brien lives in Leisure World, a sprawling retirement community in Montgomery County, MD. The World War II vet, who went ashore with the 3rd Marine Division on Guam and Iwo Jima, attended the Lucas CC Chapter meeting in January, sipped a beer, then blew out a single candle on a surprise birthday cake (someone said the fire marshal would not allow a 90 candle blaze in the restaurant). Obie is believed to be the oldest active member of the USMCCCA following the passing of his good friend, Sam Stavisky, age 93, last November.