He says the secret to his long and successful life is to work hard and skip the cheap booze.
The World War II veteran and Holocaust survivor enjoys cooking dinner each night after spending a day doing options trading.Many on Schweiger’s Jewish family tree were not as fortunate to make it to that age.
Schweiger and his family escaped Austria when he was 16 years old. They eventually made it to the Detroit area. A few years after finding refuge on American soil, Schweiger was drafted into the Army during World War II and sent back to the land he escaped from.“We were dug in on the beach, on Omaha Beach,” Schweiger said. “I remember, you know, take the shovel, dig in a little bit. You’d swear that that plane you see up there can see you in that fox hole.”“Three Bronze Stars and I got a Presidential Unit Citation,” Schweiger said.
He started a family and was happily married to his sweetheart for 78 years until she passed away a few years ago.
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