For as long as he can remember, Clinton Duke wanted to be a firefighter. In 1943, he stepped into destiny by joining the Leonard-town Volunteer Fire Department at age 14.
"You had to be 16 to legally join," he said, "but World War II was going on, the town was losing a lot of men, and they needed people; so, no one bothered to check."
From there, Duke went on to amass an impressive career.
His volunteer duties led him to a fulltime job as a firefighter at Naval Air...