(WHTM)– We introduced you to him on the occasion of his 100th birthday, now, more honors for a man people call a hero, even if he shuns that label.

Quentin Stambaugh has now been honored on the floor of Pennsylvania’s House and Senate. Not everyone gets recognition like that.

But the folks who represent the York County veteran in the general assembly say he is certainly not “just anyone.”

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“He served as a radio operator and gunner on a B-25 that flew 39 missions in the Pacific,” Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York) said.

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That was in the Senate, while in the House, Representative Seth Grove hosted Stambaugh where he got a standing ovation.

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