99-Year-Old WWII Veteran Makes Major Career Change to Aid 'Foundation' of Society

Sam Baker, 99, is a veteran, a father, a grandfather and, most recently, an author who lives in Scottsdale, 🌵Arizona.

You’d never know it now, but Baker struggled with reading as a child. He told Fox News that he was taught the “sight say” method in school and never learned to read phonetically until he was an adult.

Despite the challenges he faced, he learned to love 📚Books and reading in the ninth grade, when he was required to write monthly book reports.

At age 19, four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Baker joined the Marine Corps, and he served until 1947. At that point, he joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, formerly known as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

As he raised a family, Baker loved to tell his kids stories — especially focusing on a character named Herman who was a worm.

After working at NOAA for three decades, he retired.

At the age of 95 is when Baker’s son proposed that he start writing children’s books.