<p class="title">Columbus: A veterans group is honouring a 103-year-old former chemist for the work he did to develop large stocks of penicillin during World War II.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Robert Walton was part of a team with New Jersey-based Merck & Co. tapped to ramp up production of the drug after the U.S. entered the war.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though drafted after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Walton was blocked by the government from serving and directed to continue his work in the lab.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Walton says he was simply doing his job.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The local chapter of the Military Order of The Purple Heart has asked Walton to lay a wreath at the group's monument at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum Aug. 7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chapter head Tom Beck says the work of Walton and others saved millions of lives.</p>
<p class="title">Columbus: A veterans group is honouring a 103-year-old former chemist for the work he did to develop large stocks of penicillin during World War II.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Robert Walton was part of a team with New Jersey-based Merck & Co. tapped to ramp up production of the drug after the U.S. entered the war.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though drafted after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Walton was blocked by the government from serving and directed to continue his work in the lab.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Walton says he was simply doing his job.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The local chapter of the Military Order of The Purple Heart has asked Walton to lay a wreath at the group's monument at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum Aug. 7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chapter head Tom Beck says the work of Walton and others saved millions of lives.</p>