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'I Like To Dance': 97-Year-Old World War II Vet Steps Out To Boogie During Coronavirus Lockdown

WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS Local) -- A 97-year-old World War II veteran whose dance routine videos have lit up social media for a few years now, refuses to sit out during the coronavirus pandemic.

Video posted Sunday by Stars and Stripes Honor Flight shows Chuck Franzke dancing along to Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling" in his stocking feet by the front door of his home in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

"97 yr old dancing #WWII #Navy pilot Chuck is back! Quarantine 'Can't Stop the Feeling'… #honorflight #Everydayisabonus," Stars and Stripes Honor Flight tweeted.

The video has been viewed more than one million times. But it is by no means the first video posted featuring the boogying veteran.

In 2017, he danced to "Jingle Bells" ahead of his 95th birthday.

In 2018, he demonstrated his latest moves to "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"

December 21, 2018 by PR - Stars and Stripes Honor Flight on YouTube

And then last year, he took it up a notch for "Run Rudolph Run."

"I like to dance, but my balance stinks, he said in 2017.

Franzke served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

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