Turning the big 100, a World War II veteran in the California city of Lodi is celebrating his birthday with one wish.

A Kentucky woman received mail from her lifelong friend on her birthday and opened it to find a familiar card: the same birthday card the women have been sending to one another for 81 years.

These lifelong Louisville friends have been exchanging same birthday card for 80 ... I THINK AS YOU GET OLDER, ... and her family moved to Indianapolis in 1942."I didn’t know very many people.