🎊Happy 99th Birthday to Taylor Larimore🎉

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Taylor receiving the French Medal of Honor for his WWII service.


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Happy 99th! Many congratulations indeed!
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Happy 99th Birthday, Taylor Larimore!!! May your day be filled with joy, and may you treasure every day of this wonderful life! Many returns!
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Happy Birthday Mr. Larimore!

Thank you for your service that contributed to the freedoms and liberty we now enjoy, and for your selfless, consistent and sage advice you offer so many here.

In the face relentless questions of complexity that we all read, you are so often the voice of reason and a strong reminder of the power of sophisticated simplicity.

I know your thoughts and advice keep so many of us on the right track - myself very much included - and I’m thankful for you!

Keep rockin'!
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Happy Birthday Taylor!! 🎂🎂🎂
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Happy Birthday Mr. Larimore!!
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Happy Birthday Taylor!

Your impact grows and grows. Just this weekend I loaned my copy of Bogleheads Guide to Investing to my best buddy. It was gifted to me around 2008 by a fellow co-author of yours. He was kind of enough to have you and the other co-authors sign it. As I handed it over to my buddy, I thumbed through the first few pages and saw your signature. I told my buddy, "If Taylor said it, you can take it to the bank!. It helped me as I got started off, and now it can help set you in the right direction." Happy Birthday, Godspeed, and Fair winds!
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Happy birthday Taylor! Thank you for all you've done for me and countless others.
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Happy Birthday my friend!

Your amazing forum made it possible for me and my wife to have complete confidence in our retirement finances.

Your courageous service made it possible for me and my wife to have the freedom to enjoy our retirement.

Well done Mr. Larimore.
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Happy birthday, Taylor!
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Happy Birthday, Taylor. :sharebeer
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Happy birthday Taylor and thanks for your contributions.
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Happy Birthday Sir! All the best for the next year!
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Happy Birthday and greetings from Finland!
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Happy Birthday!!
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Happy birthday, Taylor! Meeting you is on my bucket list and thank you for all you do for people like me!!
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Happy birthday sir! And thank you for your service and sacrifice. My generation's easy life was "paid forward" by your generation. Perhaps my generation's test still lies ahead. If so, I hope I rise to the challenge.
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Happy birthday, Taylor! Thank you for everything.

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Happy Birthday Taylor
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Happy birthday 🎂 Taylor.

Thanks for helping me on my financial journey
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Happy 99th birthday, Taylor!
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Happy Birthday Taylor and thank you.
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All best, and thank you for your financial wisdom, Mr. Larimore!
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Happy 99th birthday to the King of Bogleheads!
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Happy birthday Taylor! Thanks for your continued contributions!
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Happy Birthday Wishes Mr Larimore
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Happy Birthday Taylor! The voice of reason and calm during many a market storm. A friend to anyone and everyone who posts on this forum and elsewhere. Have a great year ahead!
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Happy Birthday, Taylor! And thank you for showing me the way to the Three Fund Portfolio.
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Happy birthday Taylor, many thanks for all you've done, and what you are doing to help us along 🍻
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Happy B-day Taylor. Sorry I missed the party!
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Happy Birthday, Taylor!!! Thank you for all you do, and for all you have done for us.
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Happy 99th Taylor! :sharebeer
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Happy Birthday! Congrats 🎉
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Happy Birthday! Congrats 🎉
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Happy Birthday Taylor!

Every birthday is a reminder of how badly you screwed the insurance company with that SPIA :mrgreen:

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You mean more than you'll ever know to my family. Thank you for the guidance and inspiration. Happy birthday!
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Happy Birthday Taylor. Hope to live as long as you. :beer
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Happy Birthday Mr. Larimore and thank you for the years of help and for your large contribution to so many.
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Happy belated Taylor!
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Kathleen Ryan wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:01 am "The Battle of the Bulge," was a German offensive to try to split the Allied troops in half and try to capture, Antwerp, a key port city in Belgium, during World War II.

Taylor and his division were deployed to the town of Bastogne, to defend it, because it was an important road junction, and Bastogne's capture would have allowed the Germans to move further into Belgium.

Taylor's, 101st Airborne Division, along with other units, were surrounded by the Germans and cutoff from supplies. Even though Taylor's group, and the other Allied units were outmanned, and outgunned, they, "Held the Line," and Bastogne, was NOT captured by the Germans.

The 101st Airborne Division, also engaged in a counter-offensive, to push the Germans back, by disrupting the Germans communications, and slow them from advancing, by attacking strategic targets, which gave the Allied troop time to bring in reinforcements. The 101st Airborne Division, attacked roads and rail bridges, German command centers, fuel and ammunition centers, and power plants.

The 101st Airborne Division lost many men, but mercifully, Taylor was spared. No one knows how long we have on the Earth, but it seems so clear to me, that Taylor has always been here to help the people who have the honor of knowing him, from his earliest years, to the present. This is what a life of service looks like.
Thank you Taylor for all you've done and Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday! Thank you for your contribution of knowledge to multiple generations of savers.
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Update: See my post below which shows the images in a forum post.
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The birthday bash was held via Zoom on Thursday, January 26, 2023. The meeting was not recorded. Here's what was presented:

- At the 2022 Bogleheads Conference, Andrew Bogle welcomed Taylor into the Bogleheads Hall of Fame. The video has been uploaded to the Bogleheads Chicago chapter's YouTube channel: Taylor welcomed to Bogleheads Hall Of Fame (This is not the Bogle Center's YouTube channel.)

- Taylor's Bogleheads Hall of Fame certificate

- Taylor's certificate from Andrew Bogle

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- Mel Lindauer's birthday wishes to Taylor. Mel to Taylor.mp3. Mel could not attend the celebration. His wishes are recorded on audio only.

- A video of Taylor's life: Taylor's life video

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Taylor's birthday cake: Taylor's birthday cake

Taylor's birthday present - Instead of a 3-fund pie chart, we presented Taylor with the "official" Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie. The pie is equally weighted. Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie

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Everything but the YouTube video were uploaded to the Bogle Center's SharePoint site. Sorry, but the forum software and SharePoint don't mix and won't allow the images to be shown in a forum post. (See my post below.)

Please click on the above links to view the images directly in your web browser. You'll be able to download the images from there.

You can only view the uploads by using the original links in this post - not what your browser displays (that's how SharePoint works). Copy these links to share the content:

Taylor's certificate from Andrew Bogle:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EbFrNno5rE9EjDVq9zYK_YoBr4uJIhlOoMdvyXoBlHZ3AQ?e=r6QXd2
Taylor's Bogleheads Hall of Fame certificate:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EfR63QiQnTNJkvsNvdzk-NMB-QKyPOZBTIie-njqqw473A?e=DibY8D
Mel Lindauer's birthday wishes to Taylor (mp3 audio file):

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/Bogleheads/EUX1FW0SMXdHm-IxucARMBgBgjvEgesQw8yETCkiemKtSw?e=Eyn2Wo
Taylor's life video:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/Bogleheads/ER4h1OofWMpPvjqkUnBMubkB_kaL0ews3anfzMBKDKt_OQ?e=iMNvco
Taylor's birthday cake:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EY4DpsV8LddGmSt9WrLOwjkBVnreLDMlt-YNZEro_DO6Lg?e=teLuSf
The "official" Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EXhoK7Jyz_RHoqNL1zUuS6gBLmuco0oOFi8mmd_OwGnelQ?e=E7mgli
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It is good to see Taylor get all of this well deserved recognition. One just never knows the influence that one has with others and I suspect Taylor's influence is more than what he knows. Good to see the video of Andrew Bogle, Jack's son, recognizing Taylor at a Boglehead's conference. Good to see the video showing highlights of Taylor's life. Good to see all of the gratitude expressed on this thread. Taylor now is the first member of the Boglehead's Hall of Fame.

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So congratulations Taylor and best wishes for a 100th BIrthday this time next year.
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Dear Taylor,

It was another wonderful highlight of my life, seeing you and having a chance to speak with you again, via your
Zoom 99th Birthday Party last night.

I want to share a link from our Facebook Bogleheads site, of the same birthday wish I posted there
for you.

https://www.facebook.com/Bogleheads

You received 34 birthday wishes there, in addition to the over 100 birthday wishes here, and
8,549 post engagements.

I'm not one for statistics, but I feel it's important to share this with you, because we are reaching many
young people also, which adds to your legacy and that of Mr. Bogle, spreading the Bogleheads investing
philosophy to upcoming generations. This is a wonderful feeling to witness the, "Torch being passed," hopefully
in perpetuity.

With love and admiration,
Kathleen
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LadyGeek wrote: Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:54 am The birthday bash was held via Zoom on Thursday, January 26, 2023. The meeting was not recorded. Here's what was presented:

- At the 2022 Bogleheads Conference, Andrew Bogle welcomed Taylor into the Bogleheads Hall of Fame. The video has been uploaded to the Bogleheads Chicago chapter's YouTube channel: Taylor welcomed to Bogleheads Hall Of Fame (This is not the Bogle Center's YouTube channel.)

- Taylor's Bogleheads Hall of Fame certificate

- Taylor's certificate from Andrew Bogle

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- Mel Lindauer's birthday wishes to Taylor. Mel to Taylor.mp3. Mel could not attend the celebration. His wishes are recorded on audio only.

- A video of Taylor's life: Taylor's life video

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Taylor's birthday cake: Taylor's birthday cake

Taylor's birthday present - Instead of a 3-fund pie chart, we presented Taylor with the "official" Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie. The pie is equally weighted. Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie

======================================
Everything but the YouTube video were uploaded to the Bogle Center's SharePoint site. Sorry, but the forum software and SharePoint don't mix and won't allow the images to be shown in a forum post.

Please click on the above links to view the images directly in your web browser. You'll be able to download the images from there.

You can only view the uploads by using the original links in this post - not what your browser displays (that's how SharePoint works). Copy these links to share the content:

Taylor's certificate from Andrew Bogle:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EbFrNno5rE9EjDVq9zYK_YoBr4uJIhlOoMdvyXoBlHZ3AQ?e=r6QXd2
Taylor's Bogleheads Hall of Fame certificate:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EfR63QiQnTNJkvsNvdzk-NMB-QKyPOZBTIie-njqqw473A?e=DibY8D
Mel Lindauer's birthday wishes to Taylor (mp3 audio file):

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/Bogleheads/EUX1FW0SMXdHm-IxucARMBgBgjvEgesQw8yETCkiemKtSw?e=Eyn2Wo
Taylor's life video:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/Bogleheads/ER4h1OofWMpPvjqkUnBMubkB_kaL0ews3anfzMBKDKt_OQ?e=iMNvco
Taylor's birthday cake:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EY4DpsV8LddGmSt9WrLOwjkBVnreLDMlt-YNZEro_DO6Lg?e=teLuSf
The "official" Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie:

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https://boglecenter.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/Bogleheads/EXhoK7Jyz_RHoqNL1zUuS6gBLmuco0oOFi8mmd_OwGnelQ?e=E7mgli

Huge thanks LadyGeek for posting these from the Birthday celebration for Taylor's 99th Birthday! It's nice to share these good times with the entire Bogleheads community that Taylor enjoys and appreciates so much.

And thanks for being the Bogleheads Baker, baking the special 99th Birthday Cake and cooking the Three Fund Portfolio Pie 8-)
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I uploaded the images to Google Drive and scaled them to fit in a forum post. Click on the links to view the image full size. You can download it from there. If you want to share the images without downloading, share the links shown in the previous post (the "Code" sections).

Taylor's certificate from Andrew Bogle:
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Taylor's Bogleheads Hall of Fame certificate:
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Taylor's birthday cake:
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The "official" Bogleheads 3-fund portfolio pie:
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Late to the party,....belatedly wishing Taylor Larimore happy birthday, and offer my thanks to him for what he has done and continues to do!!!
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Happy 99th Birthday, Mr. Larimore. Thank you for being a great example and inspiration to us young Bogleheads!
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