http://amarillo.com/local-news/news/2017-08-04/beilue-dwindling-few-uss-indianpolis-reunion-too-meaningful-ignore
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Cleatus Lebow of Memphis is 93 and spends most of his time in a wheelchair. He needs right hip replacement, but at his age, it was determined surgery was too risky. Getting around obviously isn't what it used to be, and certainly not what it was 72 years ago.
But that wasn't going to stop him last weekend from attending an annual reunion of the survivors of the USS Indianapolis in where else? Indianapolis. And while his chaperone and friend Jack Barnes wonders if this might have been his final trip, Lebow isn't listening.
"I told them I'd be there next year one way or another," Lebow said. "I plan to be there until we quit having them."